Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane

by Alain-Rene Le Sage

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First English edition. 32 engraved plates 8 in each volume . 4 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt spines, red leather labels. Heads of two volumes slightly nicked, spines and joints a little rubbed, else very good. Item #25274 Scarce first printing in England of the French text, appearing in the same year as the Smollett translation. NUC gives four locations only.

• Printing: first

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