By Alain-René Lesage; Tobias Smollett [translator]
London   Henry Frowde Oxford University Press
6" by 4" xxxii, 408, 8; xiv, 408, 8pp.
A smart two volume set of this picaresque novel from French writer Alain-Rene Lesage, translated by Tobias Smollett.
By Alain-René Lesage; Tobias Smollett [translator]

1907 The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillana

London   Henry Frowde Oxford University Press
6" by 4" xxxii, 408, 8; xiv, 408, 8pp.
A smart two volume set of this picaresque novel from French writer Alain-Rene Lesage, translated by Tobias Smollett.
£70.00
: 0.75kgs / : 965T18

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Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in two volumes. The World's Classics series. A highly popular picaresque novel following the life of Gil Blas. Born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid, he is educated by his uncle and leaves his home to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. Written by Alain-Rene Lesage, a French novelist and playwright best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks. Translated by Tobias George Smollett, a Scottish writer and surgeon. With an introduction and notes by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, a British writer on Spanish literature.

Condition

In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages.

Very Good

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