Back

The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha

The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8326
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8327
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8328
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8329
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8330
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8331
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8332
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8333
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8337
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8338
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8339
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8340
The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton IMG_8341

Book Description

A very smart set indeed of this limited edition version of Don Quixote. The History of The Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of The Mancha, by Cervantes, 1895. Translated by Thomas Shelton 1612-1620. The Introduction by Justin Huntly McCarthy. The Illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. In 4 Volumes, complete. Published by Gibbings and Co. Ld., London, and J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1895. First edition thus - an uncommon edition - limited to 1500 copies printed by Morrison and Gibb, Edinburgh, 1895. A near fine set of hardbacks bound with tan leather spines and corners with marbled paper over boards, veined with gilt ink. Matching marbled endpapers. Spines with gilt tooled decoration and titles, with 5 raised bands. Minor wear and bumping. All soundly bound. Text is clean and bright throughout with the plates well presented. Both half title and full title page printed in dark brown and red ink. Gilt top edge with rough cut vertical edge. The set is likely to be unread as some text pages still uncut. Frontispieces with tissue guards. A handsome set. All plates present as called for.
Author Cervantes. Translated by Thomas Shelton 1612-1620. The Introduction by Justin Huntly McCarthy.
Date 1895
Binding Fine binding
Publisher Gibbings and Co. Ld., London, and J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia
Illustrator Frank Brangwyn
Condition Near fine.

Price: £350.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Contact Dealer Email to Friend Print

Other books

If you liked the book you've just seen, you might be interested in other books from the same dealer below.

Explore

Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary; An Etymological Di...

John Jamieson

Archibald Constable and Company, and Alexander Jameson, Edinburgh by Abernethy and Walker

£300.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Original 1912 British Passport of Mr. Edmond John...

British Government

£175.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Gennadeion Monographs V: Campaign of the Falieri a...

Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe. Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Appendices by C.W.J. Eliot.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Princeton, New Jersey

£40.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Sir James Guthrie, P.R.S.A., LL. D.; A Biography....

By Sir James L. Caw. Foreword by Sir D.Y. Cameron, R.A., LL.D. Guthrie As interpreter by Frank Rinder. Personal Memories by John Warrack, LL.D.

Macmillan and Co. Limited

£250.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

A Father of Women and Other Poems (Inscribed by th...

Alice Meynell

Burns & Oates Ltd, London

£120.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The Birds of Dumfriesshire; A Contribution to the...

Hugh S. Gladstone.

Witherby & Co., London

£100.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The Life of Joseph Locke, Civil Engineer

Joseph Devey

Richard Bentley, London

£180.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The King of Elfland's Daughter

Lord Dunsany

G.P. Putnam's Sons, London New York

£400.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Collectanea Anglo-Minoritica, or A Collection of t...

A.P. (Anthony Parkinson).

Thomas Smith, Bloomsbury, London

£450.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Firs...

Charles Dickens

Chapman and Hall, London

£475.00

Offered by Lanna Antique

Friends of the PBFA

For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.

Please email info@pbfa.org for more information

Join PBFA

Membership of the PBFA is open to anyone who has been trading in antiquarian and second-hand books for a minimum of two years subject to certain criteria.

Email info@pbfa.org to find out more, or complete the enquiry form.

complete the form