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., full green morocco binding, cold-framed. smooth spine decorated with romantic iron, gilt edges (Boutigny). Original edition of the Jules Janin's notice and first edition of the illustration by Tony Johannot, including a frontispiece printed on china glued and 147 vignettes in the text, one of which repeated on the title, all woodcut. Virtually freckles-free. Rare copy in contemporary binding with the first cover preserved. Nice copy in period binding, preserved cover.
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