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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de) - DORÉ (Gustave). The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translation by Louis Viardot. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1863. - 2 volumes in-folio, 423 x 304: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XXIII, 459, II pp. (1 blank f.), 61 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 515, II pp. (1 blank f.), 57 plates. Dark blue half-chagrin, dark blue percaline boards decorated with framed cold-stamped fillets, author, title, illustrator and tomaisons in gilt lettering on first board, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges (publisher's binding). Famous first edition illustrated with 377 woodcuts after compositions by Gustave DORÉ (1832-1883), including 2 frontispieces on tinted backgrounds, 128 hors-texts also on tinted backgrounds, 128 headpieces and 129 culs-de-lampe. A good copy in the publisher's binding. Rubbing to head cover of second volume. Serpente of the first frontispiece corroded, worm work on the edges of some leaves of the second volume (pp. 191 to 203 and 357 to 381), slight light wetness on the edges of the last leaves of the same volume.
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de) - DORÉ (Gustave). The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translation by Louis Viardot. Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1863. - 2 volumes in-folio, 423 x 304: frontispiece, (2 ff.), XXIII, 459, II pp. (1 blank f.), 61 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 515, II pp. (1 blank f.), 57 plates. Dark blue half-chagrin, dark blue percaline boards decorated with framed cold-stamped fillets, author, title, illustrator and tomaisons in gilt lettering on first board, ornate ribbed spine, gilt edges (publisher's binding). Famous first edition illustrated with 377 woodcuts after compositions by Gustave DORÉ (1832-1883), including 2 frontispieces on tinted backgrounds, 128 hors-texts also on tinted backgrounds, 128 headpieces and 129 culs-de-lampe. A good copy in the publisher's binding. Rubbing to head cover of second volume. Serpente of the first frontispiece corroded, worm work on the edges of some leaves of the second volume (pp. 191 to 203 and 357 to 381), slight light wetness on the edges of the last leaves of the same volume.
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