LESAGE, Alain-Rene

THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE

Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1937. John Austen. Hardcover. Two large quarto (7-1/2" x 11-3/8") volumes bound in half gray linen, gold-stamped, and blue linen boards. Attractive edition of Smollett's translation. Introduction by J. B. Priestley. Illustrated with line drawings and watercolors by John Austen with his usual charm, collotyped by Day & Son and hand-colored by Daniel Jacomet. Copy #65 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Spines darkened. Still Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappers and in a broken slipcase, lacking the top and bottom edges. Item #021240

Price: $60.00