166 - CERVANTES. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge. Paris: Hachette, 1909. 4 vols., in-4, morocco. Lavallière binding, bordered with thick and thin gold thread on the covers, spine with 5 raised bands and gold thread border, interior thread border, edges gilt on endpapers, cover and spine well-preserved (Chambolle-Duru).

CERVANTES. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge. Paris: Hachette, 1909. 4 vols., in-4, morocco. Lavallière binding, bordered with thick and thin gold thread on the covers, spine with 5 raised bands and gold thread border, interior thread border, edges gilt on endpapers, cover and spine well-preserved (Chambolle-Duru). PRINTED IN A RUN OF 350 COPIES, numbered; this is ONE OF 10 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER, the only large-format papers, containing the out-of-text illustrations in two states, including the frontispiece. One of the most beautiful illustrated editions of Cervantes’ masterpiece, adorned with 100 large out-of-text compositions and 156 in-text illustrations by D. Vierge, printed in intaglio. A SUPERB COPY bound in its original period binding by the master bookbinder Chambolle-Duru.