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ism is displayed with a vigour and wit that carries the reader away. Irony<br />
without exaggeration, a perfect restra<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> its admirable humour, a gift<br />
for the ‘throw-away l<strong>in</strong>e’ (‘pour encourager les autres’ is a classic example);<br />
all these show Voltaire’s style and orig<strong>in</strong>ality at their <strong>in</strong>comparable best.’<br />
(PMM 204).<br />
The pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g history of Candide is a complicated one. The Wrst edition<br />
was published by Cramer and is described under number 299G by Giles<br />
Barber <strong>in</strong> the critical edition of Candide published as volume 48 of the<br />
Complete Works of Voltaire <strong>in</strong> 1980 by the Voltaire Foundation (Taylor<br />
Institution, Oxford). This Wrst edition is very rare <strong>in</strong>deed, with only about<br />
twenty copies recorded. Most of these copies, just like this one, are bound<br />
without the Wnal leaves N7, a blank, and N8, <strong>in</strong>structions to the b<strong>in</strong>der concern<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the cancellation of two pairs of leaves (B4/B9) and D6/9D7). All<br />
the recorded copies so far, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g two recently on the market, have all the<br />
cancels <strong>in</strong> gather<strong>in</strong>gs B and D, with the exception of the copy at the Voltaire<br />
Institute <strong>in</strong> Geneva, which has both these signatures uncancelled.<br />
The present copy is unique <strong>in</strong> that it has the cancels <strong>in</strong> signature B, but<br />
preserves signature D uncancelled. This results <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>elegant sentence<br />
‘toutes nos Wlles se trouvèrent Presque toutes en un moment’, with its repetition<br />
of ‘toutes’, (p. 84) (to be corrected <strong>in</strong> all later pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gs) and the<br />
use of a diVerent ornament on page 86, not ornament g ‘pot of Xowers’ as<br />
described <strong>in</strong> Barber, but <strong>in</strong>stead ornament d, a mixture of fruit and leaves,<br />
just as the Geneva copy.<br />
Barber 299G; En Français dans le Texte 160; Morize 59a; <strong>Pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g</strong> and the M<strong>in</strong>d of<br />
Man 204; Wade 1.<br />
A Love of All Th<strong>in</strong>gs English<br />
119 [VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de.] Lettres Ecrites de<br />
Londres sur le Anglois et autres Sujets. Par M. D. V.***. Basle, [i.e.<br />
London, Bowyer], 1734. [Bound with:] Lettre sur les Panegiriques.<br />
Par Irenée Aléthès, Professeur en Droit dans le Canton Suisse d’Uri.<br />
The Hague, Frederic Staatman, 1767. £850<br />
Two works <strong>in</strong> one volume, 8vo, pp. [viii], 228, 19; 15; late eighteenthcentury<br />
red boards, sp<strong>in</strong>e lettered <strong>in</strong> manuscript; head and tail of sp<strong>in</strong>e<br />
chipped and corners lightly bumped, sp<strong>in</strong>e and sides a little faded; a<br />
good copy.<br />
I. First edition <strong>in</strong> French of this fasc<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g volume of great philosophical<br />
and scientiWc <strong>in</strong>terest, which was, <strong>in</strong> fact partly written <strong>in</strong> English and Wrst<br />
published <strong>in</strong> English the previous year. It was written by Voltaire as a k<strong>in</strong>d<br />
of testimony of his love of ‘th<strong>in</strong>gs English’, and then subsequently partly<br />
rewritten <strong>in</strong> French for the French editions. Buruma observes that Voltaire<br />
<strong>in</strong>vented a new genre: <strong>in</strong>stead of writ<strong>in</strong>g an ord<strong>in</strong>ary travel book, he approached<br />
his subject as an <strong>in</strong>tellectual traveller and wrote a journey of ideas.<br />
He made no eVort to describe what England looked like, but wanted to<br />
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