CERVANTES, Miguel de. Don Quixote de la Mancha. London: John Thomas. 1840.
Three vols, Royal 8vo. Contemporary Spanish marbled green calf by Tout (binder's ink stamp to verso of front free endpaper), covers gilt-ruled in a panel design, gilt corner pieces, spine with raised bands richly decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco lettering pieces, inner dentelles gilt, top edge gilt, green and gold marbled endpapers, red silk place-markers; light rubbing to extremities, else a very good, clean copy.
A remarkable highly illustrated edition in a stunning binding by one of the nineteenth-century London master binders.
Illustrated by Tony Johannot and translated by Charles Jarvis (first published in 1742), this is one of the outstanding English editions of Don Quixote.
Tony Johannot was born in Germany of Huguenot descent and provided publishers with sought-after illustrations in the mid-nineteenth century.
Charles Jarvis (1675-1738) was an Irish portrait painter and translator. In London he moved in the highest literary circles, which included Alexander Pope, Horace Walpole, Addison, Pope and Swift.
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