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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1881. Spines just faintly lighter than sides, else fine. Largely unopened. Three volumes. lx, (13)-398p; 395p; 407p. Illustrated by R. de Los Rios with 12 original etchings. Translated by Tobias Smollett. Edited by George Saintsbury. Bound by Bayntun (Riviere) in half red crushed morocco with cloth sides and marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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… Saber más sobre este artículo

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/>

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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.… Saber más sobre este artículo

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.

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… Saber más sobre este artículo