LESAGE (Alain René)

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LESAGE (Alain René)
Le Diable boiteux... preceded by a notice on Le Sage, by Mr. Jules Janin. Paris: Ernest Bourdin and Company, 1840. In-8, 269 x 175 mm: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XVI, 380 pp., bound in full red chagrin. Beautiful ornamental gilt plate on the covers, decorated with scrolls and garlands of flowers with in its center a gilt plate with the figure of the frontispiece, smooth spine decorated with a beautiful rocaille iron decorated with scrolls of acanthus leaves edged with flowers, gilt edges (Boutigny). Original edition of Jules Janin's notice and first print of Tony Johannot's illustration, including a frontispiece printed on china glued and 147 vignettes in the text, one of which is repeated on the title, all woodcut. Freckles. Beautiful copy, in its publisher's binding in full sorrow.
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