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Volume 1 opens with a biographical note on the author.
Pretty romantic binding in glazed tawny calfskin, smooth spine adorned with a decoration of small gilt irons in the center of Gothic motifs.
CONDITION: Leather a little faded, some minor traces. Interiors in good condition, slight yellowing & some rare foxing. Good condition.
"The Story of Gil Blas de Santillane tells, in the first person, how Gil Blas, born in poverty to a squire and maid from Santillane, Cantabria, left Oviedo at the age of ten- seven years to go to the University of Salamanca, after having been educated by his canon uncle.His student future is quickly turned upside down when, barely on the way, chance gives him as a companion and as a forced accomplice to highway robbers and makes him make the disagreeable acquaintance of justice Necessity makes him a valet, then the vicissitudes of life lead him through all the degrees of domesticity and enable him to observe closely all classes of society, in the State and in the Church. He is mingled with rogues of all ranks and, by contagion of example more than by nature, he himself practices roguery, and with all the less scruple as it exercises bigger."
AUTHOR: Alain-René Lesage
TITLE: History of Gil Blas de Santillane. Second edition
PUBLISHER: Au Bureau des Editeurs, Paris and 1829 (Library of Friends of Letters collection, or Choice of the best French authors)
Opposite the title pages ""Printing works of Marchand du Breuil, n° 80"
5 volumes in 3 vol of approx 300 pp each
Subject: Lesage History of Gil Blas de Santillane. 1829 Romantic half-calf binding 67449969