CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE) Don Quixote de La Mancha--BUTLER (SAMUEL) Hudibras--LE SAGE (ALAIN RENE) The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, 3 works in 9 vol., fine uniform binding, 1819
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE)
Don Quixote de La Mancha, 4 vol., translated by Charles Jarvis, W. Stockdale--BUTLER (SAMUEL) Hudibras, 2 vol., Thomas M'Lean--LE SAGE (ALAIN RENE) The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, 3 vol. translated by Tobias Smollett, Thomas M'Lean, together 3 works in 9 vol., with a total of 51 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark, uniform binding of modern maroon straight-grained morocco gilt, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., A FINE SET, 8vo, 1819 (9)
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  • An unusual and handsomely bound set of three classic picaresque novels, all illustrated with Clark's hand-coloured aquatints and published in the same year.

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