first edition Full Calf
1819 · London
by Le Sage, Alain-Rene; translated by Tobias Smollett
London: Thomas McLean, Juhn Bumpus; W. H. Reid; John Brumby; and Priestley and Weale, 1819. First edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. 8vo. Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding. With 15 hand-colored aquatint plates. Triple fillet border on covers, floral tooling and morocco lettering pieces on spines, Volume 1 and 3 spines slightly worn at top. With varying offsetting from some plates onto facing pages, scattered foxing on text leaves. Bookplates of Edward Laurence Doheny and Carrie Estelle Doheny. A beautiful set.
(Inventory #: 001439)