Cervantes Saavedra,M.De.
L' ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche. Traduction nouvelle par Ch(arles) Furne. Illustrée de 160 dessins par G(eorges) Roux, gravés par (Edmond Charles Joseph) Yon et (Georges Léon Alfred) Perrichon. Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie o. J. (1858). 4°. XVI, 623 pp. with 160 wood engraved illustrations (including 1 portrait of Cervantes). Wine-red Ohldr. with gold-stamped title on spine, coffered gilding and gilt edges. (Best., some rubbing). Ashbee, An iconography of Don Quixote 252. mancing 180. first edition with these illustrations. - "They vary in artistic merit, but are spirited and generally effective" (H. S. Ashbee). - "Adornada con los recomendables dibujos de G. Roux, grabados por Yon-Perrichon" (Río y Rico). - George Roux was also the most prolific illustrator of J. Verne's works, along with Léon Benett. - Partially oxidized endpapers, nice clean copy.
