The Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane Extra-Illustrated

by Le Sage, trans Tobias Smollett

$300 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

London: J. Mawman, 1819. Three volumes; octavo 22cm. ; full contemporary mottled calf, black gilt spine labels, Vol. III recently rebacked in the same style, all edges speckled brown, later 19th-century endpapers; frontispieces to each volume, that of Vol. II hand-colored; additionally, 43 plates throughout, including 15 hand-colored added plates from the McLean edition published six months later. Leather a bit dried and

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