L'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche
by CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, 1836. First edition thus. Tony Johannot. 2 vols. 4to. Additional decorative title-pages, wood-engraved frontispieces on papier de chine and some 800 illustrations (plates, head- and tailpieces, initials, vignettes) throught by Tony Johannot, inserted engraved folding map at rear of vol. II showing the route of Don Quixote's travels. [iv], 744; [iv], 758 pp., with half-titles. Contemporary half red morocco gilt and marbled boards; vol. II front joint cracked, some foxing throughout Translated into French and annotated by Louis Viardot. Ray commends this edition ("a wonder of Romantic bookmaking") for Johannot's illustrations highlighting the "sad profundity" of Don Quixote, whereas previous illustrators had made the knight a figure of ridicule. The volume I frontispiece portrait of Don Quixote exists in two states, with mustache (as in this copy) and without.REFERENCE: Carteret, III, 136-7; Ray French 182; Rius 542; Vicaire, II, pp. 155-6
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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100928
- Title
- L'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche
- Author
- CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
- Illustrator
- Tony Johannot
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.-J. Dubochet et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1836
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...