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London: Gibbings & Company Limited, 1895. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Very Good. Gently faded at the spine of all four volumes/. Frank Brangwyn. Hardback. Physically 7” x 4½” (1.7 kg); 0pp; Translated by Thomas Shelton; Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn; Preface by Justin Huntly McCarthy; One of a limited printing run of 1500 copies. Includes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece; Top edge gilt; Title page vignette; Complete in four volumes: (xxxiii, ix, xix, xi), 304, 344, 351, 291pp. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #187220|| Condition:

London: D. Midwinter, et al, 1740. Third edition thus. Coypel. 4 vols. 12mo. 22 engraved folding plates by Gerard van der Gucht after Charles-Antoine Coypel, engraved head- and tailpieces. xxiv, [14], 264; [ii], 288; [ii], 288; [ii], 260, [36, index] pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, red morocco spine labels; joints and covers rubbed, vol. 1 rust-stain to title and A2-11 loose, vol. 2 head chipped, vol. 4 front board detached, occasional foxing or toning Robert Shelton's translation, the first into English, with engravings after Coypel. ESTC identifies editions of Shelton's translation with Coypel's illustrations published in 1725, 1731, and 1740PROVENANCE: M. Haddock (contemporary ownership signature on title-pages)REFERENCE: ESTC T59502; Palau 52478; Rius 625

London: T. Fisher and Unwin , 1906. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 7.5". Daniel Vierge . A scarce limited edition of Miguel De Cervantes' immensely popular novel, 'Don Quixote,' illustrated throughout by Daniel Vierge. In a charming Zaehnsdorf fine binding. Miguel de Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote, translated by Thomas Shelton. With an introduction by Royal Cortissoz. This edition was limited to one hundred and sixty five copies published by T. Unwin for sale in Great Britain, this is number one hundred and three printed on deckel-edged paper. Ten copies were printed on imperial Japan paper. An important novel in the Western literature, it is regarded as the first modern novel; following the adventures of fearless noble from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who enjoys reading many chivalric romances and slowly loses his mind and wants to become a knight-errant. This edition is embellished with numerous lovely illustrations by Daniel Vierge, French illustrator who revolutionised the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1907 Eight volumes. Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Shelton. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge with tissue guarded plates and in-text illustrations. With an introduction by Royal Cortissoz. First edition thus. One of 140 copies printed on Imperial Japan paper "with two additional full-page illustrations, and with extra prints, before letter, of all the full-page illustrations," numbered 77. From a total limitation of 1,150. Finely bound by Riviere in brown morocco, with five raised bands to spines, spine compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, spines decorated in blind, and top edge gilt. Near fine set, with light toning and rubbing to spines, light spotting to boards and text block edges, board edges rubbed to boards in some areas, and some offsetting to endpaper margins. Overall, an exceptionally pleasing set. First published in two volumes in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is widely considered one of the most influential works in the history… Read More

London: Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew Crooke, 1652. Second edition in English. Second English-language edition of Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote. Also the first one-volume edition of this translation, and first folio in English. Two parts in one volume, chancery folio. [xvi], 138, [x], 138-274 pp. with each numbered page of the contents actually containing two pages. Woodcut devices on both titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. Full contemporary English calf twice ruled in blind, rebacked with recent endpapers. Corners worn with losses, some surface wear, lacking blanks. Title-page worn and soiled at edges, small hole above title. Some spotting throughout text, darkening along edges. Final leaf has lower marginal loss at foot with small paper repair to verso, also with some marginalia to both recto and verso. Cervantes's celebrated novel. Originally published in Madrid in 1604 and part II in 1615, the Thomas Shelton translation published in 1612 and the second part in 1620 was… Read More

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1928. First Edition. First Edition. Two volumes. Folio (17 x 12 inches). Extremely scarce in the Ashendene full pigskin binding which Ashendene procured W. H. Smith to expertly bind (signed on rear lower dentelle of volume two in gilt pallet: "Bound by W. H. Smith and Son," An impressive binding with five large raised bands extending slightly onto covers forming a triangle, six large raised bands and two extending out at top and bottom, six panels, two of which contain gilt-stamped lettering. Printed in Ptolemy type, designed for its first use by Emery Walker, in black and red, double column, shoulder notes in red, chapter headings in red beneath chapter numbers in black, two three-quarter page borders, 18-line and smaller initial capitals or opening words in a stylized black-on-white leaf and tendril pattern, designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W. M. Quick and G. H. Ford. All edges untrimmed. One of 255 copies, this in the original pigskin binding (Hornby 36). An… Read More

London: Printed for Edward Blount, 1620. Often cited as the first modern novel, Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote remains not only the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age, but the most important work of the entire Spanish literary canon. For its influence, innovation and critical status, it is "to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English" (Bloom) and has become globally regarded as "one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times" (PMM).

London: Edward Blount, 1620.

London: Edward Blount, 1620.