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The Lutetian Society, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. Limited Edition. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Volume Two. Blue & white cloth with gilt lettering. 500 copies of this edition printed, this being number 449. Translated by Ernest Dowson. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Both hinges cracked. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine. Tanned square area to front board. Notable scuffing, staining and soiling to boards.

London: The Lutetian Society, 1899. An Heroic-Comical Poem in Twenty-One Cantos. VOLUME 2 ONLY. Out of Series. Faded spine. Bumped and worn corners. Foxing on covers.. Limited to 500 Copies. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Dowson, Ernest (trans). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: THE LUTETIAN SOCIETY, 1899. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very good.. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8 3/4'' X 7 1/4''. Two volumes. 406pp. Five hundred copies of this Edition have been printed this is copy number 71. Soiling to original boards. Foxing to endpapers and light toning throughout.

London: The Lutetian Society , 1899. One of an edition of 500 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. A new and complete translation into English verse revised, corrected, and augmented from the earlier English translation of W.H. Ireland and the one attributed to Lady Charleville with the variants now for the first time translated by Ernest Dowson. Near Fine in quarter blue buckram over white buckram, gilt lettering and rules, Near Fine, slight soiling to the white buckram. A handsome copy of this rather uncommon edition. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Buckram. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

London: Lutetian Society 1899, a numbered copy from a limited edition of 500. (Hardcover) 406pp. Very good. The two volumes bound as one in 3 / 4 leather with raised bands and marbled boards. Extra-illustrated with 20 engraved plates (removed from a smaller and quite earlier volume) tipped-in. The spine is a bit scuffed and the covers are worn around the edges. Also known as Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire. Identified on spine as Voltaire (The Maid of Orleans). Translated by Ernest Dowson. Revised and enlarged by W.H. Ireland. (Poetry).

[London: privately printed by Catherine Maria Bury, Countess of Charleville, 1796. First Edition, large paper copy (one of just 5). The first complete English translation. Large 8vo (just under 24 cm), pp. 227 218. Untrimmed. Bound in later 3/4 red morocco and plain boards (rubbed along the extremities), without the half title. "Mostly all of the copies were destroyed, the freedom of the translation being considered injurious to the memory of Lady Charleville. Only 5 copies were printed on large paper. See the notes to the Renouard copy no. 1349- sale by Sotheby June 30, 1834." The preface and notes cover 5 pages. ESTC; T137636.A nice clean tight set. A poem about Joan of Arc. From Wikipedia: "Voltaire was undoubtedly one of the most controversial writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment Age, and The Maid of Orleans was also certainly one of his more contentious works. An epic and scandalous satire concerning the life of the not-yet-canonised Joan of Arc ("the Maid of Orleans"), the poem was… Read More