The adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
By: Alain René Lesage ; tranlsated by Tobias Smollett ; with an introduction by J.B. Priestley and illustrations by John Austen
Contributors: Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771, tr; Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984; Austen, John, ill; Johnson, John de Monins, 1882-1956, printer; Oxford University Press; Limited Editions Club; Limited Editions Club Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the University Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 660
Work titles: Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
Notes: "Fifteen hundred copies have been printed ,,, by John Johnson ... and each book has been signed by the artist"--Colophon.

Issued in dust jacket and slipcase.

LC has copy no. 1 in slipcase.

Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, 98

Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, no. 98

Acquired as part of an archival set from the publisher in 2008.