Author: LESAGE, Alain-Rene
Title: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Description: Oxford, The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Translation by Tobias Smollett. Introduction by J.B. Priestley. Illustrations by John Austen. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. Grey and blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxvi, 329pp; x, pp. 330-660. Tissue-guarded color frontispieces, full-page color plates, numerous line drawings, decorative endpapers. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with spines (only) showing mild wear and light age toning; lacks dust jackets and slipcase. Tight and nice set of the third title in the LEC's ninth series, a French picaresque novel originally published 1715-35, translated by Smollett in 1748. Illustrations are superbly hand colored. Rear colophon notes limitation to 1500 numbered copies (this #219) nicely signed by illustrator Austen. NEWMAN 98. .

Keywords: World Literature


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