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The History and Adventures of the Reknowned Don Quixote (four volumes)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Tobias Smollett (trans)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dublin: John Chambers, 1796. Hardcover. Good. Impressively produced edition of Cervantes' landmark work intended to echo the epochal 1780 Spanish edition by Joaquin Ibarra, using Smollett's 1755 translation. Featuring 22 engravings by Bromley after Spanish masterworks by Carnicero and Barranco. With a brief biography of Cervantes and Smollett's preface. List of subscribers. Bound in full leather with inner and outer dentelles. Marbled end-papers. 8vo. Volumes I & II have been sympathetically rebound with the originals boards and spine laid down. Mild cracking to joints of vols III & IV. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns. Genera' rubbing and bumping to edges, mild marks to covers. Tanning to page edges and occasional light spotting/staining within. Bindings sound. A nice example. Good+
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008139
- Title
- The History and Adventures of the Reknowned Don Quixote (four volumes)
- Author
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Tobias Smollett (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Chambers
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1796
- Keywords
- leather_binding, fiction, literature, spanish, spain, knight, fiction, literature, spanish, spain, knight, sancho panza, pansa, don quihote
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
AJ Scruffles
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
AJ Scruffles is an online bookseller, based between Epping and Harlow. Our website also hosts an online magazine with reviews, articles and humour
Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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