ASMODEUS BY ALAIN RENE LE SAGE 1881 VELLUM BINDING
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[LE SAGE, Alain Rene]. Asmodeus, or the Devil Upon Two Sticks, Preceded by Dialogues, Serious and Comic Between Two Chimneys of Madrid. With Four Original Etchings by R. de Los Rios. London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1881.
First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (200 x 130 x 30 mm.). Pp. xix, 332. Bound in contemporary full vellum, bevelled board edges. Morocco title-plate to spine with gilt titles. Patterned endpapers. Half-title present. Title-page printed in red and black. Four engraved plates with tissue-guards. Printed by Ballantyne Hanson, and Co. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure the hinges intact. Slight grubbiness to covers. Minor very light scattered foxing. Previous owner signature neatly inked to half-title page. Scarce.