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The Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane [Extra-Illustrated]
by LE SAGE; Tobias Smollett, trans
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: J. Mawman, 1819. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary mottled calf, black gilt spine labels, Vol. III recently rebacked in the same style, all edges speckled brown, later 19th-century endpapers; frontispieces to each volume, that of Vol. II hand-colored; additionally, 43 plates throughout, including 15 hand-colored added plates from the McLean edition published six months later. Leather a bit dried and extremities rubbed, some shallow loss of leather at spine ends of first two volumes, Vol. II shows some soiling to four leaves, else a Very Good and sound set, housed in a recent cloth clam-shell box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23561
- Title
- The Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane [Extra-Illustrated]
- Author
- LE SAGE; Tobias Smollett, trans
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. Mawman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1819
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrators; Literature Before 1900; France;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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