La Pucelle D'Orléans, Poeme, divisé en vingt chants, avec des notes, Nouvelle Edition, corrigée, augmentée & collationée sur le Manuscript de l'Auteur. by VOLTAIRE, Jean François Marie Arouet de

16mo. (123 x 92mm), pp.xvi,303; a very good copy of this well printed edition with fleuron ornaments & vignettes; contemporary calf, morocco label; extremities worn, upper hinge cracked but board firmly held; ex libris Joseph Granville Stuart Goff [of] Hale Park and Edward F. Lydall. Originally written in 1730, Voltaire's risqué version of the tale of Joan of Arc was first printed in a pirated edition in 1755. Over twenty piracies subsequently appeared until, impatient of inaccurate texts, Voltaire completely revised his early manuscript with a preface (by 'Don Apuleius Risorius' i.e. Voltaire), five new cantos and a rewritten final canto for the first authorised edition, printed by Cramer, Geneva, with plates by Gravelot. This smaller format piracy is unillustrated but includes the new preface and cantos.