Edition: First Edition, Binding: Late 19th Century half calf with marbled boards. Blind tooled design on spine. Five raised bands in six compartments. Tooled gilt lettering on spine. Free and pasted marbled end papers. , Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland.

Gil Blas (French: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre.
Gil Blas is related to Lesage's play Turcaret (1709). In both works, Lesage uses witty valets in the service of thieving masters, women of questionable morals, cuckolded yet happy husbands, gourmands, ridiculous poets, false savants, and dangerously ignorant doctors to make his point. Each class and each occupation becomes an archetype.
This work is both universal and French within a Spanish context. However, its originality was questioned. Voltaire was among the first to point out similarities between Gil Blas and Marcos de Obregón by Vicente Espinel, from which Lesage had borrowed several details. Considering Gil Blas is essentially Spanish,José Francisco de Isla claimed to translate the work from French into Spanish in order to return it to its natural state. Juan Antonio Llorente suggested that Gil Blas was written by the historian Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra by arguing that no contemporary writer could have possibly written a work of such detail and accuracy.
, Size: 8vo (112mm x 187mm), Illustration: Illustrated with 100 copper plates., Volume: 4 Volumes, Category: Book Literature; Book Europe France;. A Very good set. In period attractive binding. An unintrusive library stamp an ‘H’ within a very small circle appears on the title. Text are generally clean. Item #B4109

Edition: First Edition, Binding: Late 19th Century half calf with marbled boards. Blind tooled design on spine. Five raised bands in six compartments. Tooled gilt lettering on spine. Free and pasted marbled end papers. , Notes: Ex Libris Abel E. Berland.

Gil Blas (French: L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane) is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre.
Gil Blas is related to Lesage's play Turcaret (1709). In both works, Lesage uses witty valets in the service of thieving masters, women of questionable morals, cuckolded yet happy husbands, gourmands, ridiculous poets, false savants, and dangerously ignorant doctors to make his point. Each class and each occupation becomes an archetype.
This work is both universal and French within a Spanish context. However, its originality was questioned. Voltaire was among the first to point out similarities between Gil Blas and Marcos de Obregón by Vicente Espinel, from which Lesage had borrowed several details. Considering Gil Blas is essentially Spanish,José Francisco de Isla claimed to translate the work from French into Spanish in order to return it to its natural state. Juan Antonio Llorente suggested that Gil Blas was written by the historian Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra by arguing that no contemporary writer could have possibly written a work of such detail and accuracy.
, Size: 8vo (112mm x 187mm), Illustration: Illustrated with 100 copper plates., Volume: 4 Volumes, Category: Book Literature; Book Europe France;.

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