Order Total (1 Item Items):
Shipping Destination:
Miguel Cervantes Saaverda Charles Jarvis (2 results)
Skip to main search results
Product Type
- All Product Types
- Books (2)
- Magazines & Periodicals
- Comics
- Sheet Music
- Art, Prints & Posters
- Photographs
- Maps
-
Manuscripts &
Paper Collectibles
Condition
- All Conditions
- New
- Used
Binding
- All Bindings
- Hardcover
- Softcover
Collectible Attributes
- First Edition
- Signed
- Dust Jacket
- Seller-Supplied Images
- Not Printed On Demand
Seller Location
Seller Rating
-
Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha, with Fifteen Etchings on Steel by George Cruikshank (Limited Edition of 400 Numbered Copies)
Published by George Routledge & Sons, London, 1885
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. George Cruikshank (illustrator). Please note description of condtion. Number 32 of 400 copies. Hardcover in greenish-grey cloth with title card to upper spine, no jacket, large 8vo. xii + 531 rough-edged pages, all cut. 15 Cruikshank engravings, including tissue-protected frontis. Good. Fairly strong foxing and tonng to cloth along edges and on spine; cloth smooth and clean, though consideralbe discoloration from foxing. Title card well-toned with small chip upper left corner, all titles present and clearly legible. Bumped lower rear corner with upper rear corner toed-in, surface loss at unbumped corners, strongest with touch of fraying and bit of exposed card lower front. Binding very strong with light cocking toward lower end. Light play to hinges -- slightly stronger at front -- with 1 1/4" inch narrow tear to endpaper along lower gutter rear hinge. Pages generally clean and quite bright, though occasional foxing with foxing to margins. Engravings clean at figures, though occasional small foxing spots to margins. Strong foxing to endpapers.Prev. owner's bookplate front pastedown.
-
The George Cruishank Edition Adventures of Don Quixote De La Mancha
Published by George Routledge and Sons, London; New York, 1885
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. George Cruikshank (illustrator). A very scarce limited George Cruikshank edition of Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda's famous novel. With beautiful illustrations by George Cruikshank. A very clean copy. This very scarce work is number 345 of only 400 copies. This being The George Cruikshank Edition. George Cruikshank was an incredibly popular illustrator cartoonist and book illustrator, perhaps best known for illustrating many of Dickens's novels. Incredibly prolific throughout the Victorian era, he produced closed to 10,000 over the course of his lifetime. This limited edition work is illustrated by George Cruikshank, with 15 etchings. Collated complete. This Spanish novel was written by Miguel de Cervantes Saaverda, and tells the story of the Alonso Quixano who is driven made by his multiple relationship anf so attempts to reinstate chivalry under the guise of Don Quixote de la Mancha. This was both incredibly popular and influential. Translated into English by Charles Jarvis. A delightful copy of this beloved literary work, enhanced by the illustrations of this important artist and illustrator makes for a desirable copy. In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and also to the extremities. Rubbing to the spine label. Small mark to the rear board, with a small tide mark to the front board, to the tail. The front and rear hinges are strained, with a tape repairs to the front hinge. Internally generally firmly bound with light straining to the reverse of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Page are bright and generally clean, with light spots to several plates. Numerous pages remain uncut throughout the volume. Very Good Indeed. book.
