History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
Motteux, Cervantes
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Book Details:
Publisher:Hurst, Robinson & Co, Archibald
Published Date:30th November -0001
Binding:Hardback
Condition:VeryGood
Notes:Five Volumes in full calf binding; Half Leather Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1822. First 'Lockhart edition in five volumes (John Gibson Lockhart, 1794-1854, was a Scottish writer and edited Peter Motteux's edition of Don Quixote, to which he prefixed a life of author Miguel de Cervantes). lxiv, 366pp.; vii, 328pp.; viii, 350pp.; viii, 331pp.; viii, 355pp; binding with four raised spines; leather gilt titles to spine; gilt designs to spine; some foxing to prelims; volume 1 missing half title, other volumes with half title present; with bookseller label to endpaper of volume 1; gilt decorations on front and back boards.
