Author: LESAGE, Alain-Rene
Title: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Description: Oxford, Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Two large quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in half gray linen, gold-stamped, and blue linen boards. Attractive edition of Smollett's translation. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Illustrated with line drawings and watercolors by John Austen with his usual charm, collotyped by Day & Son and hand-colored by Daniel Jacomet. Copy #65 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Ill.: John Austen. Spines darkened. Still Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappers and in a broken slipcase, lacking the top and bottom edges .

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