Lesage — Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Paris , Philippe Libraire, 1831. Leather. Alain-Rene Lesage's picaresque novel. Illustrated, with six plates. Collated, complete in four volumes. In the original French. Gil Blas was first published between 1715 and 1735. It follows the life of a young man born into misery trying to make his way as a valet. Blas works his way through life meeting people of different classes of society and eventually finds himself in the Royal Court. In a half calf binding with paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart with small patches of rubbing to the joints and to the extremities. Loss to top of spine of volume one. Slightly heavier patches of rubbing to the paper covered boards. Bumping to the extremities. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned with light scattered spots throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .