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Collective First edition, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece by Guelard and 32 very beautiful and delicate figures by Marillier, engraved by Dambrun, De Launay, Delvaux, Delignon ...
Binders full marbled fair calf contemporary. Back smooth decorated, castors. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Most cracked and brittle upper joint, some restored, others with narrow slits. pale scattered spots. Beautiful set of 15 volumes, however.
Details volumes: 1. The devil lame, plus a day of parks and Crutches lame devil (Bordelon) (4fig.). 2, 3. Gil Blas (4fig.). 4. The adventures of Robert Chevalier, said Beauchene (2fig.). 5, 6. History of Guzman Alfa paperrache (4fig). 7. The bachelor of Salamanca (2fig.). 8, 9. Roland lover (translation) (4fig.). 10. History Vanillo Gonzalez (2fig.). 11. French Theatre (2fig.). 12 to 15. Theatre of the fair (8fig.).
If Lesage has tried so many kinds, if so produced, and unevenly is that it is the first professional writer of this stature, and his work can be compared to that of Abbe Prevost it is contemporary. It remains unequaled author of the great picaresque novel Gil Blas French and some chips, especially in his theater. It is after all the great figure of French literature of the first half ^of the eighteenth, and the symbol of a turning point in French literature, one of the first to draw profits from his books, foreshadowing what will be the feuilletonistes the ^XIX; His work address is no longer a cultural elite but is popular.