[BOFA]. VOLTAIRE, Candide ou L'Optimisme. Paris, Albert Piga - Lot 93

[BOFA]. VOLTAIRE, Candide ou L'Optimisme. Paris, Albert Pigasse, Librairie des Champs-Elysées, 1932. In-4, paperback, folder and slipcase. Monod, II-11396 // San Millan, 21 /// (3f.)-220-(5f.) Text revised by André Ferron, illustrated with 65 original etchings by Gus Bofa, including a frontispiece, 32 full-page color etchings and 32 black etchings in the text (2 vignettes and 30 culs-de-lampe). Limited edition of 100 copies, all on Arches vellum signed by the publisher and illustrator, this one of 14 nominative copies reserved for collaborators, here printed for Louis Malexis (no. III). A very richly illustrated copy containing : - 2 original drawings used for the illustration (17.5 x 13 cm), one of which is watercolored ; - full-page plates in double state bound in the volume (in triple state for one of them), definitive state and state in black with remarks; - in a separate folder, numerous additional states with remarks and important variants, as follows: one additional state (12 full-page plates and 24 cul-de-lampe plates), 2 additional states (10 full-page plates and 7 cul-de-lampe plates), 3 additional states (6 full-page plates and one cul-de-lampe plate), 4 additional states (4 full-page plates) or 5 additional states (one full-page plate); - 5 plates refused; - decomposition of one plate; - 4 autograph letters to Louis Malexis from Gus Bofa (1), Marcel Vertès (1) and publisher Albert Pigasse (2). Some foxing, covers worn.