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Candide ou L'Optimisme; Zadig; Jeannot et Colin by Voltaire, Francois
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Paris: : Edition Nilsson, , n.d. 8vo,. original wraps with pochoir decorated onionskin wraps. Losses to onionskin jacket on spine, one closed tear to lower left of first plate, fore-edges ragged, last 3 pages torn at top fore-edge. A little fragile but still a nice clean copy. Amusing illustrations of 3 of Voltaire's works.
wraps : The paper covering on the outside of a paperback.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
spine : The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf. Also known as the back.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
plate : Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
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