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LESAGE, Alain-René; SMOLLETT, Tobias (translator).

The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane.

The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane.

Translated from the French of Lesage... embellished with fifteen highly finished engravings, from drawings designed expressly for this edition.

Stock Code 113984

London, Thomas M'Lean; John Bumpus; W. H. Reid; John Brumby; and Priestley and Weale, 1819

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A freshly illustrated edition of Tobias Smollett's translation of Alain-René Lesage's classic archetypal tale, L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. The hand-coloured plates bring energy to the story in this handsome set.

3 vols, 8vo (22 x 14 cm), bound without half-titles; 15 hand-coloured aquatints, a little offsetting and slight damp staining to lower corner of text blocks, otherwise internally clean, a couple of marginal corners lacking; smartly rebacked with original full calf boards, board edges gilt rolled, gilt spine in six compartments with red morocco lettering pieces, later endpapers, some very light rubbing, a very good set; iii-xii, 384; iii-viii, 378; iii-xi, [1], 392pp.

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