- 902
(Gibbon, Edward) — Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description
- The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha translated … by Charles Jarvis. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and R, Dodsley in Pall-Mall. 1742 — Gregorio Mayans y Siscar. The Life of Michael de Cervantes Saaevdra. Translated by John Ozell. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1738
- Ink, paper and cow
Two volumes bound in one, 4to (11 x 9 in.; 280 x 227 mm). Engraved portrait of Cervantes by George Virtue as frontispiece of The Life of Cervantes, sixty-eight numbered engraved plates, most by Gerard van der Gucht after John Vanderbank, including frontispiece, typographical ornaments; uniformly slightly browned. Contemporary English calf over wooden boards; extremities rubbed.
Provenance
Edward Gibbon (bookplate) — Payson G. Gates (bookplate) — Christie's South Kensington, December 1, 1997, lot 187. acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch
Literature
Lowndes II, 401
Catalogue Note
Edward Gibbon's copy.