Description
Up For Sale Today is
Candide
or All For The Best
Translated from the French of M. De Voltaire
With 10 Etchings by Clara Tice
Leather. 8vo. Published by J. Enschedé en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries Inc, Haarlem / New York, 1927. 2 parts in 1 volume with continuous pagination. 182 pgs. Illustrated with 10 etchings by Clara Tice, hand-colored frontispiece, each with tissue guard with legends printed in red. Copy number #001 of 250 copies on Pannekoek paper.
Bound by Whitman Bennett in decorated red leather with gilt titles present to the spine and gilt decoration present to the front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn to the edges). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
This edition, enriched by Clara Tice's racy and whimsical illustrations, is an "Exact reprint of the earliest English text" and was printed in Holland by the Johann Enschedé en Zonen of Haarlem, founded in 1703. The verso of the title page states it was "set entirely by hand from type cast by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen from original Didot matrices."
Clara Tice (22 May 1888 – 2 February 1973) was an American avant-garde illustrator and artist, who spent most of her life in New York City, United States. Because of her provocative art and public appearances, she was seen as representative of bohemian Greenwich Village and thus known as "The Queen of Greenwich Village."
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| Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
| Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
| inches | cm | |||||
| folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
| quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
| octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
| duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
| sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
| octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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