THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE. Translated from the…

THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE. Translated from the French of Le Sage. By T. Smollett, M.D. To Which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe. Illustrated by George Cruikshank...

New York: Harper, 1836. Two volumes, octavo, original brown cloth elaborately decorated in blind with a floral pattern, spines gilt lettered. (2), xxvi, (27)-406, [4]; xii, (13)-397, (1, blank) + (2) pp ads + blank leaf. Six plates with tissue guards in each volume (12 in all ). Cloth slightly sunned at margins of covers; spines chipped at tips; page edges browned; considerable foxing in text and to plates, typical of American books of this period; VG tight pair otherwise, no owner names. Presumably, the first American edition with the Cruikshank illustrations. The UK edition was in 1833, also in two volumes. First edition in English was in 1716, and the first of the Smollett translation was in 1749.

Book ID: 20225
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