The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Four Volume Set)

£250.00

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de | MOTTEUX, Peter Anthony (translated by) (1660-1718) SKU: 15209

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906.

Four volumes. Royal 8vo. (10 x 6.5 ins); [xii], xlii, 445; viii, (4), 484; x, (2), 512 ; ix, (3), 508 pp; 37 plates in total (including the four frontispieces), each behind tissue-guards, etched by Adolphe Lalauze (1838-1906). Publisher's original red cloth spine over brown boards with gilt figure holding a shield and spear to spines, gilt title lettering; top edges gilt, others untrimmed and in many cases uncut. Scattered spots of foxing to endpapers and prelims, never heavy. Spines a touch sun-faded and lightly rubbed along edges. A near Fine copy.