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Published by Folio Society, London, 1995
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Quentin Blake (illustrator). First Edition Thus; First Printing. Still stiff to open in illustrated yellow cloth; in lightly scuffed sturdy brown slipcase with script titles. ; 769 pages.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1995
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Slipcase). Blake, Quentin (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First edition thus, slipcased hardcover, has a shallow lean to the binding, and slight bumps to the spine ends. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight and bright, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good slipcase, which has light bumps to the corners, rubbing with some areas of smudging to the panels, and mild shelfwear along the edges.
Published by The University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, 2003
ISBN 10: 0820324302ISBN 13: 9780820324302
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A fine, clean and tight copy in a fine jacket/broart covered. First printing this edition. A very nice copy with a very small tear to top of jackets spine. No bumped corners to book. Spine tips are smooth and round. No signatures.
Published by A. Millar; T. Osborn; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch; L. Hawes; J. Hodges; J. and J. Rivington, London, 1755
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Full leather. Condition: Very good. First edition of Tobias Smollett's translation of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, complete with twenty-eight illustrated plates by Francis Hayman. (illustrator). First Edition. Quarto, [two volumes], xxviii, 403pp; viii, 466pp, [1 errata]. Full brown calf, thin double ruled gilt trim to covers. Five raised bands, decorative compartments, title in gilt over red morocco labels affixed to spine. Thread from bands visible along endpapers. Solid text blocks. A very good set with wear to covers, light rubbing to gilt on spines, toning to endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. Complete with 28 full-page plates by Francis Hayman, including a detailed frontispiece in Volume I. (ESTC T59887) (Ashbee 51) (Río y Rico 453) A nice example of the seminal translation by Tobias Smollett. "Tobias Smollett's translation of Don Quixote for the 1755 edition contributed much to the reappraisal later in the century of Cervantes as a patriot, a soldier, and a model of chivalry himself" (Harthan, 153). "It is historically important, for it is one of the principal versions in which Cervantes' novel was known to several generations of English and American readers" (Thomas Hart). Smollett completed the fifth English translation, preceded by Thomas Shelton (1612, 1620), John Phillips (1687), Peter Motteux (1700-03), and Charles Jervas (1742).