Rare books from Cristina Porrúa Antique and Rare Books

8º. 6 complete volumes: 455 pp., 436 pp., 454 pp., 468 pp., 453 pp., 422 pp. Publisher's hardcover binding with a beautiful and shiny gold cover, fully decorated in gold on red cloth; gilt top edge, black paper endpapers. Each volume with a different frontispiece; slight minimal traces of moisture on volume I; missing pages 97-98 in volume III; the rest in excellent condition. Texts in English.
This set is the third part of "The D'Artagnan Romances," which in turn is part of the collection "The Romances of Alexandre Dumas," published by Little Brown and Co. during the 19th century.
"The Viscount of Bragelonne" was originally published in 1847. It is the third and final part of the D'Artagnan novels, also known as the Musketeers Trilogy.
The novel begins in the year 1660, ten years after the events of "Twenty Years After."

16º. (12 x 8 cm)
12 volumes [out of 13]. Original green publisher's cloth; titles and volume number in gold on spine; black endpapers with a small label from G.G. Walmsley Liverpool. All volumes in very good condition; clean and bright texts; the cover of volume II is a bit stiff and slightly twisted. In a custom green half-box.
A beautiful collection that includes the 37 works, poems, and sonnets of Shakespeare.
Contents:
Volume I: "The Tempest," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "Comedy of Errors," 233 pp.
Volume II: "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Measure for Measure," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," 275 pp.
Volume III: "Much Ado About Nothing," "Twelfth Night: or What You Will," "Love's Labour's Lost," 285 pp.
Volume IV: "As You Like It," "The Merchant of Venice," "A Winter's Tale," 306 pp.
Volume V: "Taming of The Shrew," "All's Well That Ends Well," "King John," 299 pp.
Volume VI: "King Richard II," "King Henry IV Part 1 and 2," 328 pp.
Volume VII: "King Henry V," "King Henry VI Part 1 and 2," 337 pp.… Read More

8º. 187 pp. Half-bound, blue cloth, leather spine, raised bands, titles in gold. Four illustrations by the author: 2 in color and two in black and white, full-page. Two-tone title page. Previous owner's name in ink on the title page.
Considered by many as one of the most important and relevant poetic works in the history of poetic art. With a prologue by José Bergamín, the work was published posthumously, 4 years after the author's assassination.