[LE SAGE Alain-René, [HUGO Victor] Histoire de Gil Blas de S - Lot 60

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[LE SAGE Alain-René, [HUGO Victor] Histoire de Gil Blas de S - Lot 60
[LE SAGE Alain-René, [HUGO Victor] Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (...) avec un examen préliminaire, de nouveaux sommaires des chapitres, et des notes historiques et littéraires par M. le Cte François de Neufchateau. Paris, Lefèvre, 1820. Three volumes, in-8°, contemporary long-grained red morocco, 5-rib spine decorated with gilt caissons, havana morocco title-pieces, double gilt fillet framing the covers with fleurons at the corners, gilt roulette on the edges, inner gilt lace, gilt edges, emerald silk bookmarks (Simier r[elieur] du Roi). False-title, title, LXIV pp. 440 pp. including table; false-title, title, 524 pp. including table; false-title, title, 454 pp. including table. Off-text plates with serpents, drawn by A. Desenne and engraved by Bein and Prévost, dated 1820. Large-margin paper. The "Examen (préliminaire) de la question de savoir si Le Sage est l'auteur de Gil Blas, ou s'il l'a pris de l'espagnol" (64 pages), here in its second edition, is in fact one of the earliest texts by Victor Hugo, aged sixteen when he wrote it in 1818. Some very slight scratches and discrete traces of rubbing on some covers. Minor marginal foxing to some leaves. A fine copy.
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