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Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha (The George Cruickshank Edition)
by de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London (Broadway, Ludgate Hill): George Routledge and Sons, 1885. 1st Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cruickshank, George. 1st thus. One of a numbered edition limited to 400 copies, this being No. 77. xii, 532pp, on laid paper, with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and fourteen further etchings on steel, all by George Cruickshank. Title page printed in red and black. In grey cloth covered boards, with paper title label on spine (boards rubbed at edges, rounded and frayed at corners and spine ends, small area of dark stain around upper leading corner, spine label chipped, rubbed and marked but not obscuring titles. Endpapers showing a little tanning, previous owner's name neatly written on front paste down, gutter between front endpapers slightly strained, tissue-guard browned, else internally neat, clean and bright. A flyer for Routledge's Sir Joshua Reynold's Edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson has been tipped in on the front free endpaper. Square, binding firm. A handsome volume. A large and heavy volume which will likely incur an additional charge for overseas delivery.
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- Title
- Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha (The George Cruickshank Edition)
- Author
- de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
- Illustrator
- Cruickshank, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London (Broadway, Ludgate Hill)
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Don Quixote, Laid Paper, George Cruickshank edition,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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