Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Don Quixote de la Mancha
£1,134
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Translated from the Spanish. Embellished with Engravings from Pictures painted by Robert Smirke, Esq. R. A. London; for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818. First edition, large-paper copy, 4 volumes, 4to (27.6 x 22cm), contemporary diced russia, spines gilt in compartments, five-fillet borders gilt to covers, all edges gilt, 48 engraved plates and 8 engraved head- and tailpieces, all on india paper, mounted, mezzotint frontispiece (not mentioned in list of plates), engraved bookplates, 19th-century ownership inscription to volume 1 endpaper
Provenance
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman