LESAGE (Alain-René).

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LESAGE (Alain-René).
Le diable boiteux, illustré par Tony Johannot, précédé d'une notice sur Le Sage, par M. Jules Janin. Paris, Ernest Bourdin et Cie, 1840. Large in-8, long-grained bottle-green half-maroquin with corners, spine ribbed and decorated with fleurons and stippling, not trimmed (Stroobants). First edition. Portrait-frontispice of the Limping Devil engraved by Brévière and 140 woodcut vignettes in the text after Tony Johannot. One of the very few copies on china paper, in perfect condition. As required, the frontispiece is printed on china paper applied to vellum. From the Sam Clapp Library (2002, no. 531).
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