8vo. In two volumes. x, 550pp; viii, 506pp. With an additional engraved title page to each volume. Finely bound in contemporary navy calf, richly gilt-tooled, with contrasting brown and burgundy lettering-pieces to spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Lightly rubbed and marked, with very light surface wear to extremities. Very light spotting to titles.

A nineteenth-century reprint, in the original French, of French novelist Alain-René Lesage's (1668-1747) popular picaresque novel, Gil Blas, collated against the complete edition of 1747.