The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane; A new translation

by the author of Roderick Random. by Tobias Smollett, Alain-Rene Le Sage

$600 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

London: Printed for T. Osborne and others , 1766. Third edition of the Smollett translation first published in 1749 . 12mo. 4 volumes: xii, 312; iv, 263; vii, 292; viii, 276 pp. Illustrated with a copper-engraved frontispiece to each volume and 29 other copper-engraved plates. For his own fiction, Smollett preferred to adapt to his purpose the 'picaresque' method of Le Sage ... Smollett's hero, like 'Gil Blas' recounts a life of varied adventures, which he

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