VOLTAIRE. La Pucelle d'Orléans, poem in twenty-one songs, with notes, to which several pieces have been attached. London, 1780 - 2 volumes in-8, 195 x 133 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), 218 pp. (1 blank f.) ; (2 ff.), 180 pp. Bound in contemporary style, cardboard boards covered with dominoté paper decorated with gilt stars and dots, spine naked with visible nerves, formerly covered with marbled paper, untrimmed, in a red morocco slipcase decorated on the boards with a gilt lace in imitation of the decorations of the 18th century bindings (contemporary binding, posterior case) Cohen, 1032-1033. - Dutel, A-934. One of the most charming early illustrated editions of Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orléans, published, according to Dutel, in Paris under the false address of London, by Lamy, Pissot and Valade . It is illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one unsigned vignettes by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux. ONE OF THE RARE COPIES ON LARGE PAPER IN IN-8 FORMAT. this copy is all the more interesting as it is covered with its waiting binding of the time, with all margins, and ENRICHED WITH THE SUITE DITE "ANGLAISE" . This suite includes a frontispiece representing Voltaire and Joan of Arc, as well as eighteen very nice free plates not signed but attributed to Duflos for the engraving and to Marillier for the drawings. They are called "English suite" because they are imitated from the figures engraved by a certain L. Drake for the 1768 edition and because the proofs bear on the top the designation in English "Book I", "Book II", etc. A copy for which a beautiful posterior case has been made, in imitation of the most beautiful lace bindings of the 18th century. The marbled paper that covered the spines has been removed. Rubbing from use and scratches to the case.