CERVANTES Saavedra, Miguel de; Charles JARVIS (translator); Tony JOHANNOT (illustrator). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish ... Carefully revised and corrected. With eight hundred illustrations. London: John Thomas. 1840.
Three vols, Royal 8vo. Late 19th-century Spanish marbled green calf signed 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; illustrated throughout; light rubbing to extremities, else a very good, clean copy.
A remarkable edition, illustrated with eight hundred engravings by the German artist Tony Johannot (1803–1852), this set in a stunning binding by Samuel Tout (1841–1902), one of nineteenth-century London’s master binders.
Charles Jarvis (also Jervas, 1675–1739) was an Irish portrait painter and translator who, after moving to London, became part of the highest literary circles, counting Alexander Pope, Horace Walpole, Addison and Swift among his acquaintances. His translation of Don Quixote was first published posthumously in 1742.
Born in Germany to a Huguenot family, Johannot became one of the most sought-after illustrators of mid-nineteenth-century publishing. His illustrations for Don Quixote first appeared in Paris in 1836–37 in J.-J. Dubochet et Cie’s L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, and were first used for an English edition in 1837–38, for Jarvis’s translation published in London by J.J. Dubochet & Co.The binder Samuel Tout was based in Soho from 1868 to 1879, later moving to Whitechapel, where he briefly worked with William Coward. He also worked at Frank Karslake’s celebrated Hampstead Bindery, which opened in Charing Cross in 1898.
SKU: 2113136
CERVANTES Saavedra, Miguel de; Charles JARVIS (translator); Tony JOHANNOT (illustrator). Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Spanish ... Carefully revised and corrected. With eight hundred illustrations. London: John Thomas. 1840.
Three vols, Royal 8vo. Late 19th-century Spanish marbled green calf signed 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; illustrated throughout; light rubbing to extremities, else a very good, clean copy.
A remarkable edition, illustrated with eight hundred engravings by the German artist Tony Johannot (1803–1852), this set in a stunning binding by Samuel Tout (1841–1902), one of nineteenth-century London’s master binders.
Charles Jarvis (also Jervas, 1675–1739) was an Irish portrait painter and translator who, after moving to London, became part of the highest literary circles, counting Alexander Pope, Horace Walpole, Addison and Swift among his acquaintances. His translation of Don Quixote was first published posthumously in 1742.
Born in Germany to a Huguenot family, Johannot became one of the most sought-after illustrators of mid-nineteenth-century publishing. His illustrations for Don Quixote first appeared in Paris in 1836–37 in J.-J. Dubochet et Cie’s L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, and were first used for an English edition in 1837–38, for Jarvis’s translation published in London by J.J. Dubochet & Co.
The binder Samuel Tout was based in Soho from 1868 to 1879, later moving to Whitechapel, where he briefly worked with William Coward. He also worked at Frank Karslake’s celebrated Hampstead Bindery, which opened in Charing Cross in 1898.
SKU: 2113136
