Candide, page proofs [45 pages of text with hand-colored illustrations].

Illustrator
Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 [Browse]
Format
Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
New York : [s.n.], 1928.
Description
1 item

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2006.00364 E Row 2/GC042/Box 10/Oversize/Book Illustrations/Candide Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Medium: Relief prints, Letterpress printing, Hand coloring
    • Item description: Includes the following pages from the book--29, 30, 31, 32, 41, 42, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 68, 73, 74, 83, 84, 89, 90, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 [three copies], 108 [three copies], 109, 110, 111, Col.
    • Signed in ink, on colophon: "Rockwell Kent".
    • Inscribed in plate, Colophon: 'Of this first book with imprint of // Random House // 1470 numbered copies are printed on all rag // French paper and 95 coloured in the studio of // the artist. Hand set in type designed by Lucian // Bernhard, paragraph des.
    References
    Voltaire, Jean Francois Marie Arouet De. Candide. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York: Random House, 1928. Printed by Pynson Printers.
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