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Cloth. Condition: Good. Frank Brangwyn (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce large paper limited edition of this English translation of Cervantes's 'Novelas Ejemplares', illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. The very scarce limited edition large paper edition, one of 150 large paper copies produced, with this set being out of series.The first edition to be illustrated by Brangwyn.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates, and volume II with a frontispiece and six plates. Collated, complete.Illustrated by Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, printmaker, illustrator and designer Sir Frank William Brangwyn.An English translation of Cervantes's series of twelve novellas, authored between 1590 and 1612. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Boards bright, with back strips significantly age toned, and with light handling marks to spine labels. Rear hinge of volume II strained but firmly held. Internally, volume I firmly bound, with four plates of volume II detached and loosely inserted, and the final two text leaves of volume II detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Good. book.