Pablo de Segovia: The Spanish Sharper
by Quevedo-Villegas, Francisco de
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- Hardcover
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- Good- (vellum boards highly scuffed, smudged & stained; edge-worn. gilt spine printing worn w/ tear to lower edge of spine; ligh
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London: T Fisher Unwin, 1892. Hardcover. Good- (vellum boards highly scuffed, smudged & stained; edge-worn. gilt spine printing worn w/ tear to lower edge of spine; light tanning and foxing throughout.). Daniel Vierge. White vellum boards w/ gilt printing on burgundy title blocks on spine. xlii, 239 pp.; red tinted block edges, 110 bw drawings w/ tissue-guard frontispiece. Text in English. Translation of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas's original story; Illustrated by the Spanish-born French illustrator Daniel Vierge; Includes comments on the illustrations by Joseph Pennell, as well as an essay about the life and work of Quevedo-Villegas by Henry Edward Watts. Book I -- Giving an account of who he is and whence he sprung -- How I went to school, and what happened to me there -- How I went to a boarding school in quality of servant to Don Diego Coronel -- Of my convalescence, and departure for the University of Alcalá de Henares -- Of our entrance into Alcalá, of the footing we had to pay, and the tricks they played upon us -- Of the wicked old housekeeper, and the first knavish pranks I played at Alcalá -- How I received news of my father's death, parted from Don Diego, and what course of life I resolved on for the future -- My journey from Alcalá to Segovia, and what happened by the way till I came to Rejas, where I lay that night -- Of what happened to me on the road to Madrid with a poet -- Of what I did at Madrid, and what happened to me on my way to Cerecedilla, where I passed the night -- The kind entertainment I had at my uncle's, the visits I received; how I recovered my inheritance and returned to Madrid -- Of my flight from Segovia, with what happened to me by the way to Madrid -- In which the gentleman pursues his journey, and his promised tale of his life and condition -- Book II -- Of what happened to me at my coming to Madrid as soon as I arrived there, until nightfall -- In which the same subject is pursued, with other strange incidents -- The further proceedings of this Sharping Gang, till they were thrown all together into gaol -- In which the prison is described and what happened therein, until the old woman was whipped, my companions exposed to shame, and myself let out on bail -- How I took a lodging, and the misfortune that befel me therein -- In which the same subject is pursued, with other strange incidents -- In which the story is continued, with other incidents and notable misfortunes -- Of my cure and other strange things -- In which I turn player, poet, and gallant of nuns; which characters are daintily painted -- Of what happened to me at Seville, till I took ship for the Indies.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 187835
- Title
- Pablo de Segovia: The Spanish Sharper
- Author
- Quevedo-Villegas, Francisco de
- Illustrator
- Daniel Vierge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good- (vellum boards highly scuffed, smudged & stained; edge-worn. gilt spine printing worn w/ tear to lower edge of spine; ligh
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- European Artists ; Vierge, Daniel ; ;
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