The Adventures Of Gil Blas Of Santillane

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Good +. Gigoux, Jean. vi, [3], 6-764 p.: frontispiece and 13 leaves of plates, all with blue tissue guards: many in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title in second compartment, and decoration in remainder of compartments.… Read more about this item

London : printed for J. Osborn 1749. 4 volumes 12mo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches). Lacking frontispiece to volume 1 and title-page of volume 2. With 23 (of 32) engraved plates. Contemporary calf-backed boards uncut. Spines very dry and worn, boards rubbed, hinges cracked, old signature on titles, a few ink spots on one, some dustmarking. Bookplates… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1- 398 pages. Vol. 2- 407 pages. Vol. 3- 395 pages. 5 x 7 1/4 in. Maroon cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine, top edge of text block gilt. Condition of each volume is VERY GOOD: light wear to covers, heavy wear to spine… Read more about this item

Frederick Warne and Co.. Good. Hardcover. A hardcover in good reading in blue cloth-covered boards which have several light cup rings and very light stains, bumped corners, the spine has a small knock with a tiny cut to the frabic and is bumped/rubbed to the ends, internally very good without writing or stamps, unmarked very occasionally… Read more about this item

London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1881. First Thus. Three volumes in uniform cloth. Very Good. R. de Los Rios [Ricardo]. Three 8vo volumes. Pp. ix, [1], 15-398; 395; 407. Translated by Tobias Smollett. With an critical notes and a biography of le Sage by George Saintsbury. Illustrated with plates by Ricardo de los Rios. Uniformly bound in… Read more about this item

New York: A.L. Burt Company Book. Good Plus to Very Good. Full Leather on Flexible Board. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Smooth red calf on flexible boards. Front hinge cracked and glued. Small nick in cover edge. Translated by Tobias Smollett. Gil Blas is born into poverty, but a rich uncle sends him to university.… Read more about this item

London: J. Mawman and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. First edition thus. Full Morocco. Onlays. . Near Fine. Beautiful onlay character vignette on the front board of each of the three volumes. Bound by Bayntun, with gilt Rococo border decoration, raised bands, turn-ins. And extra-illustrated with 84 additional hand-colored plates interleaved from the 1807 edition… Read more about this item

Hurst, Robinson, and Co, 1822. Leather Binding. Near Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" An attractive 4 volume set, complete as issued. Bound in full red straight-grained morocco by Bayntun of Bath, spines with contrasting brown and green morocco labels, and gilt floral toooling within gilt-bordered compartments, covers feature an interlocking floral border surrounded by twin… Read more about this item

London: Hurst, Robinson and Company, 1822. Very good.. Four volumes, small octavo, 24 engravings including 4 frontispieces, some foxing to plates and preliminaries; half polished calf with marbled boards, spines with double morocco labels, gilt. A lovely set of the French novelist and playwright Alain-René Lesage's masterpiece in a Root binding. Lesage (1668-1747), began his career translating Spanish… Read more about this item

J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1881-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 6 volume set. Bound in original vellum-backed, green boards. Spines darkened. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Floral patterned green end sheets. Includes: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane (complete in three volumes) by Asmodeus or the Devil Upon Two Sticks The… Read more about this item

WORTHINGTON COMPANY, 1892. REPRINT . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean and tidy book, in superior condition, minor rubbing to extremities, binding tight, pages mellowed, ink inscription to front free endpaper. In tan boards with floral / leaf motif. Rather nice.

WORTHINGTON COMPANY, 1892. REPRINT . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean and tidy book, in superior condition, minor rubbing to extremities, binding tight, pages mellowed, ink inscription to front free endpaper. In tan boards with floral / leaf motif. Rather nice.

WORTHINGTON COMPANY, 1892. REPRINT . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean and tidy book, in superior condition, minor rubbing to extremities, binding tight, pages mellowed. In tan boards with floral / leaf motif. Rather nice.

London: Longman, Hurst, 1809. hardcover. fine. Translated from the French of Le Sage by Benjamin Heath Malkin. Illustrated with copper engravings with tissue guards. 4 volumes, tall 8vo, deckled edges. Bound by Birdsall-Norhtampton, full straight grained burgundy morocco, inner dentelles, decoratively gilt spines. London: Longman, Hurst, 1809. Fine.<br/><br/>

London : J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1881. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". R. de los Rios. A limited large paper edition set of The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane. Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre.… Read more about this item

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Paperback / softback. New. Smollett's translation of Gil Blas remains true to its style, spirit, and ideas, chronicling a merry, philosophical young man whose adventures lead him into all levels of society from the highest to the lowest. After two and a half centuries, his remains the finest translation of this humorous, satiric, and classic French novel.

London : Nimmo and Bain, 1881. Fine Binding. Good. 9" by 6". None. Alain-Rene Lesage's famous picaresque novel. Translated from the original French into English by Tobias Smollett. With a biographical and critical notice by George Saintsbury. In red half morocco bindings by Zaehnsdorf, London. Limited edition, numbered 61… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. Smollett's translation of Gil Blas remains true to its style, spirit, and ideas, chronicling a merry, philosophical young man whose adventures lead him into all levels of society from the highest to the lowest. After two and a half centuries, his remains the finest translation of this humorous, satiric, and classic French novel.

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