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LAZARILLO DE TORMES -- Aventures et espiègleries de Lazarille de Tormes. Paris: Didot Jeune, 1801. 2 volumes, 8° (218 x 137mm). Engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by N. Ransonette in three states, half-titles. (Title in vol. I browned, most plate margins spotted, pencil annotation to front endpaper.) Later straight-grained red morocco by Ch. de Samblanx, with filleted and floral border, flat gilt spines with oval ornament, gilt turn-ins. Provenance: purchased in 1955.
LAZARILLO DE TORMES -- Aventures et espiègleries de Lazarille de Tormes. Paris: Didot Jeune, 1801. 2 volumes, 8° (218 x 137mm). Engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by N. Ransonette in three states, half-titles. (Title in vol. I browned, most plate margins spotted, pencil annotation to front endpaper.) Later straight-grained red morocco by Ch. de Samblanx, with filleted and floral border, flat gilt spines with oval ornament, gilt turn-ins. Provenance: purchased in 1955.

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LAZARILLO DE TORMES -- Aventures et espiègleries de Lazarille de Tormes. Paris: Didot Jeune, 1801. 2 volumes, 8° (218 x 137mm). Engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by N. Ransonette in three states, half-titles. (Title in vol. I browned, most plate margins spotted, pencil annotation to front endpaper.) Later straight-grained red morocco by Ch. de Samblanx, with filleted and floral border, flat gilt spines with oval ornament, gilt turn-ins. Provenance: purchased in 1955.

Reproduces the text of G. Backer's edition (Brussels, 1698), whose translation adapted that of the abbot of Charnes (Paris, 1678). Example attractively bound by the Belgian bookbinder Charles de Samblanx (1845-1943). Brunet, III, 385; Cohen/de Ricci, p.502; Sander, Illustrierten franzsischen Bücher des 18. Jahrhunderts, 960. (2)

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