The History of Don Quixote

More often seen as a single volume in cloth, this is the seldom seen Morocco leather-backed double volume edition. A most attractive and collectable set with excellent imposing shelf presence, featuring elaborate scrolled floral gilt embossed dentelles and vignettes, and with the definitive illustrations of Don Quixote and Sanch Panza, considered by many to be among the very best of Dore’s career. A delight for reader, scholar and collector alike.

With 118 magnificent tissue-guarded steel engraved full page plate illustrations, including tissue-guarded frontispieces. Also with profuse and stunning chapter head and tail illustrated vignettes all by the seminal Gustave Dore, collated all present as called for and in excellent condition. Beautifully bound in bright gilt lettered, ruled and illustrated Morocco leather bound over blind embossed, textured wide weave linen cloth boards gently faded to fore-edge with light splashes to upper of Vol I, all edges of leaves with coloured marbling.

Pictured is Volume 1 of 2.