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Bouchot, Henri, 1849-1906, Bigmore, E. C. (Edward Clements), 1838?-1899 · London, H. Grevel and co. · leaf 240
ng with the currenttaste. The publisher Paulin thus issued the Gil Bias GIGOUXS GIL BLAS. 229 of Le Sage, with illustrations in the text by theyounger Gigoux, of which the best was hoped. Thehistory of this celebrated enterprise has been writtenby the artist himself in the curious Caitscrics… … Fi£ 95.—Vignette by John Gigoux for Gil Bias, It appears that Paulin, publisher in the Rue de Seine,not being very well off, had associated himself with aman of business named Dubochet, who had before madean enormous fortune with gas. The two representedfifteen thousand to twenty thousand francs,…
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