Le Sage - Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. - 1809

History of Gil Blas de Santillane. By Lesage. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, G. Kearsley, 1809. Complete opera in four volumes. Pages: (10), 447, (1); (4), 374, (2); (8), 423, (1); (6), 409, (1); size 24 x 15 cm. Bound in blue Morocco leather with gold titles and decorations; corner protections, boards in blue cloth. The covers show wear, especially at the hinges. Some natural foxing internally. Ex-libris label on the endpapers. An uncommon London edition of Lesage's work (1668 – 1747). Essentially a good set, enriched by 24 illustrated plates outside the text, engraved by the painter-engraver Robert Smirke (1752 – 1845).