COBB, ENOS] - Fame and fancy, or, Voltaire improved. : Containing the story of Candid-revised. : In two volumes. / By Lord Hail-Fair. ; [Four lines of verse] ; Dedicated to the Holy Alliance. ; Embellished with twelve plates. Vol. I[-II].
Boston, S.n. 1826, First Edition. Hard Cover, 15 cm. 2 Vols, 12 Illus. Ill.: Johnston, David Claypoole. Very Good/No Jacket.¶ A translation of Voltaire's Candide, followed by the second part of Candide, attributed to Thorel de Campigneulles, and a relation of the adventures of Lord Hail-Fair; the latter being a description of men and things in America, written by Enos Cobb. Running title: "Voltaire improved." Copyright Jan. 19, 1826 by Enos Cobb, "the right whereof he claims as author." Vol. 1: 215, [1] p. [4] leaves of plates; v. 2: 214 p. [8] leaves of plates. Last page of v. 1 blank. Shoemaker 24131, Sabin, 100729; I Wright, Amer. fiction, 553a. Both Malcolm Johnson and David Tatham assign the etchings to David Claypool Johnston. A commercially hand colored job, as usual, it belonged first to someone named Carpenter, and then a Derby Library. Orig. American text includes satire at the expense of Northeasterners and Anglophone Canadians, and satire on American Science. RLIn, 4 Locs, OCLC adds 13 Locs. Most copies bought near the time of publication, it is rare today. The front Bd. of Vol. one is sewn in place with stout thread and the free EPs and the Frontis. glued to it. The plates show some offsetting, but VG..
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