adventures gil blas santillane translated von sage alain rené tobias smollett (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Octavo. xii, 384; viii, 378; xi, 392; 15 plates. Original calf with decorative boards and gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spines. Marbled edges and endpapers. Three frontispieces plus twelve hand colored aquatints. Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by French author Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. Considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre. Lesage uses witty valets in the service of thieving masters, women of questionable morals, cuckolded yet happy husbands, gourmands, ridiculous poets, false savants, and dangerously ignorant doctors to make his point. Each class and each occupation becomes an archetype. Some light wear along edges of bindings, lightly scuffed at edges and leather at front joint o first volume cracked but held together. Small chips at head and tails of spines. Some offsetting of aquatints to facing pages.