{"product_id":"candide-the-optimist-voltaire-kenneth-hobson-illustrated-folio-society-1948-2","title":"Candide or The Optimist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandide or The Optimist by M. de Voltaire.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: The Folio Society, 1948. Illustrated by Kenneth Hobson. Translated by Henry Morley. 221 × 134 × 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. The illustrations were not commissioned by Folio and had been made some years previously for another edition which was abandoned. The translation used is a slightly revised version of that made by Henry Morley (1822–1894) and first published posthumously in 1922. He is not acknowledged anywhere in the text, nor in Folio 21, and it is possible that it was this version of the text that was to have been published with Hobson’s illustrations, and that the two came into Folio’s possession without any record of who was responsible for the translation. Folio Society founder Charles Ede thought the text type ‘too large for the page and quite inadequately leaded’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good-only copy, with the binding square and firm, the boards slightly bowed, showing some marking and rubbing to the cloth, with bumping and wear to the corners and spine tips, and foxing to the closed text block and prelims; otherwise clean and uninscribed. In the unclipped (12s. 6d. net) dust jacket, which is somewhat soiled, foxed, and marked throughout, with chipping and creasing to the extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53438750523731,"sku":null,"price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/Candide-or-The-Optimist-VOLTAIRE-Illustrated-KENNETH-HOBSON-Folio-Society-1948_1_2390f792-fb0a-4a71-9ccd-ffbac51c8015.webp?v=1775982159","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/candide-the-optimist-voltaire-kenneth-hobson-illustrated-folio-society-1948-2","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}