NMLP P-038184 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Candide, ou l'Optimisme
Voltaire · Gabriel Cramer, Geneva · 1759
No book-club issue exists for a 1759 imprint. The tells are: the sixteen other 1759-dated editions, which imitate Cramer's layout but fail the text points — 'que ce fut' already corrected at p. 103, 'précipitamment' at p. 125, the title ornament not repeated at pp. 193 and 266; the many later eighteenth-century collected-works printings, in which Candide appears as part of Voltaire's Œuvres rather than separately; and modern facsimiles and illustrated 'first thus' editions of the twentieth century, which are new editions of the text and are identifiable by machine-made paper, modern casing and a modern publisher's imprint.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038184 for "Candide, ou l'Optimisme" by Voltaire (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038184, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).