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Price: US$51.13 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1831. No edition remarks. 393 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Deckled edges. Rough cut edges. Pages are moderately tanned with heavy foxing. Heavy cracking to gutters, with mildly loose pages. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Notable thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and heavy marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to surfaces. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Volume II only of the 2 volume set. Cervantes's ingenious classic novel on the adventures of his hero Don Quixote is accompanied by 12 beautiful b/w engraved plates depicting illustrations of the text. One additional illustration on title page. 195x120mm. IV+393 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering on black spine label. Cover lightly stained. Cover edges slightly wavy. Cover corners bumped and very lightly worn. Cover hinges peeling. Front cover detached from spine. Rear cover detached. Spine scratched underneath spine label. Spine lower edge lightly worn. Spine upper edge partly missing. Spine label peeling. Page edges browning and wavy. Ex libris on inner front cover. First title page age stained. All pages lightly yellowing. Most pages very lightly age stained. Last plate (between. p.374/375) loose. [SUMMARY]: This rare translation of one of the greatest masterpieces of world literature, enriched by the wonderful illustrations has suffered some damage (mainly external) but is still in good reading condition. The book is in : English
Seller: The Book Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: 19 volumes, crown 8vo (approx. 6½" x 4"), later half brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards by Briggs & Wauld, t.e.g.; lightly scuffed, one gathering in Tom Jones sprung; all else very good and sound. Seventeen volumes were "illustrated by George Cruikshank, and in these there are all together seventy-four etchings by him. The first two volumes, "Robinson Crusoe," were not illustrated by G. Cruikshank, whose services were obtained in the endeavour to make the series a success" (Cohen, p. 196). But clearly, in this set, Robinson Crusoe is a replacement edition, as published by John Major, with 2 engraved frontispieces and 37 wood engravings in the text by Cruikshank, thereby making this set entirely illustrated by Cruikshank. Included are The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe . illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition, London: printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nicol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831. With 2 engraved frontispieces and 37 wood engravings in the text by Cruikshank. See Cohen 701 and Sadleir 3736a; Smollett, Tobias. The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker., London 1831. With an engraved portrait by Freeman and 4 plates etched by Cruikshank; Cohen 702; Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random, London, 1831. With 5 etchings by Cruikshank; Cohen 703; Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, London, 1831. 2 volumes, with 8 etchings by Cruikshank; Cohen 704; Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, London, 1831. 2 volumes, with 8 etchings by Cruikshank and an engraved portrait by another artist after Hogarth; Cohen 705; Fielding, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, London, 1832. With 4 etchings by Cruikshank; Cohen 706; Fielding, The History of Amelia, London, 1832. 2 volumes, with 8 etchings by Cruikshank; Cohen 707; Goldsmith, Oliver, The Vicar of Wakefield, London, 1832. With 4 etchings by Cruikshank and an engraved portrait of the author by Freeman; Cohen 708; Sterne, Laurence, Rev., The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy . to which is added The Sentimental Journey, London, 1832. With 8 etchings by Cruikshank and an engraved portrait of the author by Freeman; Cohen 709; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, London, 1833. 3 volumes, with 15 etchings by Cruikshank and 3 engraved portraits by K. Meadows; Cohen 710; Lesage, Alain-René, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, London, 1833. 2 volumes, with 10 etchings by Cruikshank and 2 engraved portraits by K. Meadows; Cohen 711. The Novelist's Library is thought to be the collection of novels referred to by Dickens in David Copperfield (chap. 4). "My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my room) and which nobody in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, The Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas and Robinson Crusoe came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.