The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de
[Introduction by J. G. Lockhart].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY; EARLIEST EL ADVERTISEMENT
Published: Dent, [1913-09]
Stock code: 48956
Price: £60.00
2 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions; original series binding of blue ribbed cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, dark tops, pictorial endpapers, case of first volume lightly shaken else a very good, bright, clean set.
The set comprises Vol. I (1906; sixth impression 1913); Vol. II (first edition 1909). The earliest EL advertisement (for 'Everyman's Library Romance Section') appears at the end of Volume Two. First published in EL in 1909 (not 1906 as stated on title verso of Volume One.). VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. EL 385, 386; Seymour 183.0, 184.0 (recording the first editions thus).