Justin Croft Antiquarian Books : CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. - The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the original Spanish... by C...

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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the original Spanish... by Charles Jarvis, Esq; the whole carefully revised and corrected, with a new translation of the poetical parts by another hand. The second edition. London: for J. and R. Tonson, S. Draper and R. Dodsley, 1749.

2 vols., 8vo (207 × 118 mm.), pp. xxii, [xxvi], 406; [xvi], 422. 24 engraved plates (including frontispiece to vol. 1) by Van de Gucht after Van de Band. Some browning and spotting throughout, later ownership inscriptions. Contemporary sprinkled calf, panelled spines with 5 raised bands, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, numbered direct. Rubbed, joints of vol.1 just starting at head. A good copy.

Jarvis’s edition, which “is generally acknowledged as being close in spirit to the original” (Oxford DNB) was first published in 1742 and was frequently reprinted. It includes a reimpression of The life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra. Written by Don Gregorio Mayáns & Siscár (1738) and A supplement to the translator’s preface, more commonly known as A dissertation on the origin of books of chivalry, by William Warburton.

£850.00 (equal to approx. US$1345.96* or €1051.20* for 22 May 2012)

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