Accession number
PML 143235-36
Creator
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Published
London : Nonesuch press, 1930.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"This edition is a reprint of the seventh edition, published in 1743, of Peter Motteux's translation of Don Quixote ... The Nonesuch edition, in two volumes, has been printed and made in England by Walter Lewis, M.A., printer to the University of Cambridge, on Casinensis hand-made paper, in the year 1930. It consists of 1475 copies of which 575 are for sale by Random House in the United States of America."--Bibliographical note, p. [v].
Library has copy no. 685.
Illustrated with 21 photogravure plates after Kauffer, stencilled with color by the Curwen Press.
Vol. 1: ix, 501 p., [11] leaves of plates; v. 2: vi, 548, [10] leaves of plates.
Library has copy no. 685.
Illustrated with 21 photogravure plates after Kauffer, stencilled with color by the Curwen Press.
Vol. 1: ix, 501 p., [11] leaves of plates; v. 2: vi, 548, [10] leaves of plates.
Description
2 v. : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Light brown morocco in cardboard slipcase.
Classification
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