Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha.: Translated from the Spanish.... by Charles Jarvis.
by CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & Company,, 1866. First Houghton edition. This is a handsomely bound copy of Cervantes's classic, first published in Madrid in 1780. As noted on the title page, the illustrations by A. B. Houghton were "engraved by the brothers Dalziel". Octavo (220 x 160 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun in mid-20th-century red morocco, signed on front turn-in, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, decorations to compartments, covers with double ruled borders in gilt, silk endpapers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Frontispiece and numerous black and white engraved illustrations within the text by A. B. Houghton. Spine very slightly faded, but still bright, some minor surface abrasions: a fine copy.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166778
- Title
- Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha.
- Author
- CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Frederick Warne & Company,
- Date Published
- 1866
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