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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana, newly translated from the French of A.R. LeSage by Martin Smart; embellished with one hundred copper-plates
by Alain René Le Sage
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
4 volumes | 12mo | 160 x 100 mm ¶ Volume 2 dated 1812, all others 1807. First and only edition of Martin Smart's translation, excepting the large paper edition here reported by the publisher. ¶ Illustrated with 100 copper plates, including several library scenes, and many signed by Tomlinson or Warner (some misbound, but all present). Publisher's ad at end of v. 4 for a large paper edition of Gil Blas and a matching edition of Don Quixote. Includes a translator's preface and life of the author. ¶ Apparently an unrecorded variant of this Phillips edition, as records in OCLC and Copac offer no evidence for any volumes dated 1812, as found here with a cancelled v. 2 title page. --- CONDITION: Contemporary sprinkled brown calf; spines with black leather labels and gold tooling. ¶ Lacking final leaf of v. 4 (additional publisher's ad?); spines badly rubbed, the first two volumes lacking their labels; mild scattered foxing; light dampstaining to last two plates in v. 1; v. 2 frontispiece and title leaf attached by single thread; inky fingerprint on verso of plate facing p. 289 in v. 2. ¶ A robust, profusely illustrated set in contemporary bindings. --- PROVENANCE: "D. Milne 1813" inked on each front paste-down.
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- Bookseller
- Patrick Olson Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00011
- Title
- The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana, newly translated from the French of A.R. LeSage by Martin Smart; embellished with one hundred copper-plates
- Author
- Alain René Le Sage
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary sprinkled leather
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Gillet for Richard Phillips
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1807-1812
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- literature, illustrated, 19th-century imprints, british imprints, english works, french works
- Size
- 12mo
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Patrick Olson Rare Books
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About the Seller
Patrick Olson Rare Books
Biblio member since 2019
Lowell, Massachusetts
About Patrick Olson Rare Books
We specialize in books from the hand-press period -- those days when Western books were printed and bound entirely by hand. While open to debate, we take this period to begin with Gutenberg (ca. 1454) and end around 1830. We offer a rotating selection of books that we hope you find interesting, important, or otherwise worthy of your consideration.
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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