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LESAGE (Alain-René).

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Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane. Paris, Pierre Ribou then his widow then Pierre Jacques Ribou, 1715-1735. 4 volumes in-12, brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated, double cold fillet framing the boards, edges speckled (Binding of the time). First edition and first illustrated edition, very rare. It is in this edition that the Continuity of Gil Blas appeared for the first time. Copy with 33 plates (the Ligneroles copy has 34, the Bnf copy 31). Dull corners. Small differences of iron on the spines of volumes III and IV. Volume I, wear of the spines. Lignerolles, 1894, n°1820 - Tchemerzine, IV, 176-177.