[Ashendene Press] — Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de | One of 225 copies on handmade Batchelor paper

[Ashendene Press] — Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 

The First[-Second] Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha, Translated by Thomas Shelton (1612). Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927-1928

2 vols., folio (430 x 305 mm). Text printed in double columns with chapter headings and shoulder notes in red, woodcut foliated initials and borders by W.M. Quick and George H. Ford after Louise Powell. Linen-backed patterned boards with printed spine labels; cloth, labels with some spotting. 

Limited to 225 copies on handmade Batchelor paper from an edition of 245

Printed with Hornby's new Ptolemy type, modelled after F. Holle of Ulm and used for the 1482 printing of Ptolemy's Georaphia.

REFERENCE:

Hornby 36