The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes - 1901

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London:: Macmillan and Co.,. Good. 1923. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Shelton. Third impression thus. Minimally marked ex-library set with a few typical markings, thus all volumes are only good in blue cloth with gilt lettering and borders on the spines. No dust jackets. .

London: Gibbings and Co., 1895. [Classic Literature] FIRST BRANGWYN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xxxvi; 304; pp.xii; 344; pp.xiv; 351 [1]; pp.[2] xiv; 291 [1]. Each volume with five black and white plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Brangwyn. One of 1500 copies printed for the British market. Publisher's cream buckram, with black titles on red striped backing to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt; others untrimmed. Heavy spotting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Bindings quite heavily toned, with moderate wear. Very good. A new edition of Shelton's 1612 / 1620 translation with illustrations by Brangwyn.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Vierge, Daniel. Four volume limited set, one of eight hundred and forty-five copies on deckle-edged paper (no. 809). Translated by Thomas Shelton, illustrations by Daniel Vierge, introduction by Royal Cortissoz. A lavishly illustrated, beautifully printed edition, combining Shelton's spirited seventeenth-century translation with Vierge's original illustrations, drawing on his travels through rural Spain. Dark red ribbed cloth, minor scuffs to boards, wear to extremities. Paper labels are intact. Darkening of deckled edges, pages are clean and unmarked. [i]-lxviii, [1]-385, [5]; [i]-xiv, [1]-416, [5]; [i]-xxiii, [1]-385 [5]; [i]-xvi, [1]-421, [5]. Occasional unopened pages. 10.5 x 7.5". As a large, heavy set, this order may require additional shipping charges. $300.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1908. Finely bound English translation of Cervantes' masterpiece. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Translated by Thomas Shelton. A very attractive set. 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).