The maid of Orleans, or La Pucelle of Voltaire. Translated into English verse; with notes, explanatory, critical, historical, and biographical. By W.H. Ireland, member of The Atheneum of Sciences and Arts at Paris. In two volumes. Vol. I

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First of two volumes in 8vo. pp. 4, li (xlviii incorrectly numbered lxviii), 288. Morocco janséniste by Bradstreet. Bookplates of Richard Philip Hart Durkee. Extra-illustrated with portraits and plates. This surprisingly scarce two-volume verse translation of Voltaire’s racy mock-epic La pucelle by the former Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) remains, in its 1899 adaptation by Ernest Dowson, the best-known version in English. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.