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Vintage 1820 Leather Don Quixote with Richard Westall Illustrations

Vintage 1820 Leather Don Quixote with Richard Westall Illustrations

$ 396.0

Leather. 8vo. Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 1820. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 20 engravings. With engraved title pages. With The Life of the Author, Extracted from Don Gregario Mayan's and Siscar's Life of...

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Leather. 8vo. Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 1820. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 20 engravings. With engraved title pages. With The Life of the Author, Extracted from Don Gregario Mayan's and Siscar's Life of Cervantes Bound in full calf bound by Edward F. Gruver Co. Spines have been rebacked. Leather ruled in gilt, with gilt titles present to the spine. With marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles present to the reverse of the boards. Boards worn to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, name present to the half title page. Foxing and offsetting present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Rear hinge of fourth volume repaired. Don Quixote , fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Leather 1820 The Life And Adventures Of Don Quixote De La Mancha Richard Westall Description: Up For Sale Today is The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote De la Mancha by Miguel Cervantes with engravings from designs by Richard Westall Leather. 8vo. Hurst, Robinson, and Co. 1820. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 20 engravings. With engraved title pages. With The Life of the Author, Extracted from Don Gregario Mayan's and Siscar's Life of Cervantes Bound in full calf bound by Edward F. Gruver Co. Spines have been rebacked. Leather ruled in gilt, with gilt titles present to the spine. With marbled endpapers and gilt dentelles present to the reverse of the boards . Boards worn to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, name present to the half title page. Foxing and offsetting present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Rear hinge of fourth volume repaired. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Don Quixote , fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of Alonso Quixano, an hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels that he decides to set out to revive chivalry, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthly wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote is met by the world as it is, initiating such themes as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written", and has been translated into more languages than any book other than the Bible. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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Specifics

Author

Miguel Cervantes; Richard Westall

Binding

Leather

Character Family

The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote

Country/Region of Manufacture

United Kingdom

Illustrator

Richard Westall

Language

English

Original/Facsimile

Original

Place of Publication

London

Publisher

Hurst, Robinson and Co

Region

North America

Special Attributes

Illustrated, Literature & Fiction; Don Quixote, The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote, Leather, Miguel Cervantes

Subject

Literature & Fiction

Topic

Don Quixote

Year Printed

1820

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