Lot 1058
1058
DON QUICHOT -- CERVANTES SA(A)VEDRA, M. de. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Transl. from the Spanish. Lond., 1818. 4 vols. (4), 2, lxxxiv, 409; (8), 395; (8), xiii, 432; (4), vi, 508 pp. W. num. engr. vign. & 48 engr. plates after paintings by Robert Smirke. Fine cont. english blind tooled & gilt dec. cf., inside dentelles, a.e.g. (Professionally rebacked in fine matching cf., some foxing in places).
Esteemed edition of Don Quixote, illustrated and translated by a father and daughter team, engraved from paintings of Robert Smirke and translated by his daughter Mary Smirke. Smirke became a full member of the Royal Academy with his paintings on Don Quixote and Sancho in 1793.€ 400
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