Don Quixote (4 vols) The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Petworth, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Wiliam Miller, 1801. Hardcover. Good. 8vo.. Translated by Charels Jarvis Esq.Tan calf boards with gilt decoration to spine. Vol I has a new spine also in brown calf. Endpapers have been replaced and taped front and rear. Vol II is missing the title label. Edges are bumped. Pages are age-tanned but clean. Previous owner's faint book stamp on vols II-IV. Maps and engravings by Stothard. 1801
Synopsis
Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by creating a fictional Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.
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- Bookseller
- Reader’s Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2690
- Title
- Don Quixote (4 vols) The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote
- Author
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wiliam Miller
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1801
- Size
- 8vo.
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Petworth, West Sussex
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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