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Publisher: The Folio Society.
Place: London, United Kingdom. Date: 1947- .
Candide, or The Optimist
by M. de Voltaire
Illustrated by Kenneth Hobson. Translated by Henry Morley.
London: The Folio Society, 19478 (Publications series, 5).
Hardback. "221 x 134 x 14 mm. Pp. [i-viii], 1-135 [136]: [7] leaves of colour plates (facing pp. [i], 16, 24, 65, 80, 97 and 112). Type: Bodoni. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Bound by Mackay in quarter black buckram, marbled paper boards. Yellow dust-jacket printed in black and colour. The plates were printed lithographically from Hobson’s watercolour paintings. In addition there are 30 pen-and-ink sketches used as head-pieces; the title-page (which is repeated on the dust-jacket) was also drawn in pen and ink by Hobson." (Source: Folio 76: A Bibliography of The Folio Society, 1947-2023, Alice Ford-Smith, comp. London: The Folio Society, 2024.)
THE FOLIO SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS
Series Note: The Folio Society is an independent London publisher that was founded in 1947 by Charles Ede, Christopher Sandford (of the Golden Cockerel Press), and Alan Bott (the founder of Pan Books).
It produces high-quality editions of classic and contemporary books which are beautiful and meticulously crafted books and which are works of art in themselves. There is great attention devoted by The Folio Society both to the text and the graphic design of its books. The illustrations are often in color and large in format, creating an immersive and visually rich reading experience. The editions are often bound in leather or cloth, with gilt edges and ribbon markers.
In addition to the main series (often referred to by librarians and collectors as the "The Folio Society Publications" series and of which the first 99 titles are listed on this page), The Folio Society has issued a number of other separate series, such as The Folio Poets,
SERIAL NUMBER / TITLE / AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR / YEAR
1947
1. Tales by Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy - Elizabeth Macfadyen, illust. - 1947
2. Trilby by George du Maurier - George du Maurier, illust. - 1947
3. Aucassin and Nicolette by F. W. Bourdillon - Lettice Sandford, illust. - 1947
4. Shakespeare's Sonnets - Reynolds Stone, illust. - 1947
1948
5. Candide by M. de Voltaire - Kenneth Hobson, illust. - 1948
6. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey - Blair Hughes-Stanton, illust. - 1948
7. Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier - Mark Severin, illust. - 1948
8. The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput and Brobdingnag by Jonathan Swift - Edward Bawden, illust. - 1948
9. Poems by Rupert Brooke - John Buckland-Wright, illust. - 1948
10. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France - Harold Hope-Read, illust. - 1948
11. The Odyssey by Homer - John Buckland-Wright, illust. 1948
12. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - Mervyn Peake, illust. - 1948
1949
13. The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Cecil Beaton, illust. - 1949.
14. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne - Oliver Warner, illust. - 1949
15. The Compleat Angler by Izaac Walton - Lynton Lamb, illust. - 1949
16. Arabian Love Tales - Lettice Sandford, tr. - 1949
17. The Parson's Daughter and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope - Joan Hassall, illust. -1949
18. Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley - John Buckland-Wright, illust. - 1949
19. Carmen by Prosper Merimée - Goya, illust. - 1949
20. Folk Tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm - original plates by George Cruikshank, which have been hand-coloured Maud Johnson - 1949
21. The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray - Clarke Hutton, illust. - 1949. Presentation Volume.
1950
22. Poems by John Keats - Dorthea Braby, illust. - 1950
23. Salambo by Gustave Flaubert - Ru van Rossem, illust. -1950
24. Voltaire's England - with contemporary engravings by William Hogarth - 1950
25. The Iliad by Homer - John Bckland-Wright, illustr. - 1950
26. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare - Jean Hugo, illust. - 1950
27. Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour by R. S. Surtees - with john Leech's original engravings - 1950
28. Manon Lescaut by Antoine-François Prevost - Valentin le Campion, illust. - 1950
29. Typee by Herman Melville - Jacques Boulleix, illust. - 1950
1951
30. Incognita by William Congreve - Ru can Rossem, illustr. - 1951. Presentation volume.
31. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - Edwin la Dell, illust. - 1951
32. The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare - Michael Ayrton, illust. - 1951
33. Handley Cross by R. S. Surtees - original engravings by John Leech - 1951
34. Letters by Horace Walpole - illustrated with contemporary engravings - 1951
35. Some People by Harold Nicholson - Philippe Jullian, illust. - 1951
36. Mary Gresley and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope - Joan Hassall, illust. - 1951
37. The Complete Poems by Emily Brontë - Sem Hertz, illust. - 1951
38. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - illustration with Civil War photos - 1951
39. The Newgate Calendar - illustrated with contemporary engravings - 1951
40. The Sofa by Crébillion fils [Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon] - Robert Bonfils, illust. - 1951
1952
41. The Reign of Nero by Tacitus - Eric Fraser, illust. - 1952. Presentation volume.
42. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith - Margaret Wetherbee, illust. - 1952
43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - Grave Sala, illust. - 1952
44. Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff by Thomas Jefferson Hogg - Douglas Percy Bliss, illust. - 1952
45. The Tragedy of Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare - illustrated by Audrey Cruddas and Roger Furse - 1952
46. The Quest for Corvo by A. J. A. Symons - Sem Hertz, illust. - 1952
47. The Last Days of Shelley and Byron by Edward John Trelawny - illustrated with contemporary engravings and drwaings - 1952
48. Mr Facey Romford's Hounds by R. S. Surtees - illustrated with John Leech's contemporary engravings - 1952
49. Two Tales of the Congo by Joseph Conrad - Dolf Rieser, illust. - 1952
50. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens - Richard Sharp, illust. 1952
51. The Book of Psalms - manuscript by Helen E. Hickley - 1952
1953
52. Lancelot and Guinevere by Sir Thomas Malory - Lettice Sandford, illust. - 1953. Presentation volume.
53. Two Tales by Aphra Behn - Iris Francis, illust. - 1953
54. As You Like It by William Shakespeare - Salvador Dali, illust. - 1953
55. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding - Derrick Harris, illust. - 1953
56. Eastern Love Poems - Ru van Rossem, illust. - 1953
57. In the Beginning by Norman Douglas - Richard Sharp, illust. 1953.
58. Plain or Ringlets by R. S. Surtees - with John Leech's original engravings - 1953
59. Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac - Dodie Masterman, illust. - 1953
60. Louis XIV at Versailles by Louis de Rouvray, duc de Saint-Simon - Goor, illust. - 1953
61. Readings from Dickens by Emlyn Williams - Barnett Freedman, illust. - 1953
62. The Young King and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde - John Gostra, illust. - 1953
1954
63. Drake's Raid on the Treasure Trains - Geoffrey Wales, illust. - 1954. Presentation volume.
64. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe - Nigel Lambourne, illust. - 1954
65. Tales of Suspense by Wilkie Collins - Anne Scott, illust. - 1954
66. Restoration Carnival: Five Courtier Poets - T. L. Poulton, illust. - 1954
67. Voices from the Ranks by Timothy Gowing - Illustrated with contemporary drawings - 1954
68. The Pastoral Works of Daphnis and Chloe by Longus - Marcel Vertès, illust. - 1954
69. Ask Mama by R. S. Surtees - with John Leech's original engravings - 1954
70. The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Roger Furse, illust. - 1954
71. Sappho by Alphonse Daudet - Susan Einzig, illust. - 1954
72. The Castle of Fratta by Ippolito Nievo - Eric Fraser, illust. - 1954
73. The Decameron: The First Five Days by Giovanni Boccaccio - John Buckland-Wright, illust. - 1954
1955
74. The Discovery of Tahiti by George Robertson - Robert Gibblings, illust. - 1955. Presentation volume.
75. The Decameron: The Second Five Days by Giovanni Boccaccio - John Buckland-Wright, illust. - 1955
76. The Artamonous by Maxim Gorki - Peter Pendrey, illust. - 1955
77. Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett - Derrick Harris, illust. - 1955
78. A Journal of the Terror by Jean-Baptiste Cléry and Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmant - illustrated with contemporary prints - 1955
79. Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant - Alistair Grant, illust. - 1955
80. Othello by William Shakespeare - Tanya Moiseiwitsch, illust. - 1955
81. Hawbruck Grange by R. S. Surtees - with Phiz's original engravings - 1955
82. The London Spy by Ned Ward - with contemporary engravings - 1955
83. The Virgin and the Gypsy by D. H. Lawrence - Dodie Masterman, illust. - 1955
84. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - with Persian miniatures - 1955
85. The Semi-Attached Couple by Emily Eden - Dorothea Braben, illust. - 1955
1956
86. Memoirs of Madame du Barry - William Russell Flint, illust. - 1956. Presentation volume.
87. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Lynton Lamb, illust. - 1956
88. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - Frank Martin, illust. - 1956
89. The Trial of Joan of Arc - illustrated with early woodcuts - 1956
90. The Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe - Phillip Ross, illust. - 1956
91. The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford - Diana Brough, illust. - 1956
92. The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare - Isamu Noguchi, illust. - 1956
93. Hillington Hall by R. S. Surtees - illustrated by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe - 1956
94. Life of Nelson by Southey - with contemporary engravings - 1956
95. Nana by Emile Zola - Marcel Vertès, illust. - 1956
96. Ghost Stories by Walter de la Mare - Barnett Freedman, illust. - 1956
97. The Canterbury Tales (Vol. 1) by Geoffrey Chaucer - Edna Whyte, illust. - 1956.
1957
98. Salome by Oscar Wilde - Frank Martin, illust. - 1957. Presentation volume.
99. The Canterbury Tales (Vol. 2) by Geoffrey Chaucer - Edna Whyte, illust. - 1957
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