May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 295

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
LE SAGE, ALAIN-RENÉ. The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana. Newly Translated . . . by Martin Smart. 100 engraved plates by Warner, Tomlinson, and others; extra-illustrated with 60 19th-century etched or engraved plates. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary deep blue straight-grain morocco gilt by Samuel Welcher, with his ticket in Volume 1, palmette roll border on covers, spines in 6 compartments, lettered in 2 with ornamental tooling on stippled ground in the rest, unevenly faded, spines darkened and gilt dulled, front joints slightly rubbed or scuffed; some plates foxed. 19th-century armorial bookplates of W. Holland Edwards, Pennant Ereithlyn, North Wales. London: T. Gillet for Richard Phillips, 1807