This just in: Don Quixote, 1818, illustrated, in four leatherbound volumes [SOLD]

   

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quixote de la Mancha / 4 volume set. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1818. pp. lxxxiv, 409; 395; xiii, 432; vi, 508. 8vo. Bound in quarter brown leather over brick-red boards. Gilt lettering to spines. Many engravings from the paintings of Robert Smirke, all present as called-for. Scuffing to bindings (through to boards along edges), ink owners’ names, some general foxing; good. Leather Bound.
Nicely printed on heavy paper with wide margins, a lovely readable font, and many beautiful engravings, this is a nice, two-centuries-old edition of this comic masterpiece and first modern novel, which features one of the most charming, vivid and indelible characters in fiction, Don Quixote de la Mancha, who read himself into madness with chivalric novels. (#027670)        $400.00