By Miguel de Cervantes; Peter Motteux
Edinburgh   Hurst, Robinson and Co.
7.5" by 4.5" (lxiv) 366pp.; (vii) 328pp.; (viii) 350pp.; (viii) 331pp.; (viii) 355pp.
Motteaux's translation of one of the foremost pieces of European literature, Cervantes' Don Quixote.
By Miguel de Cervantes; Peter Motteux

1822 The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha

Edinburgh   Hurst, Robinson and Co.
7.5" by 4.5" (lxiv) 366pp.; (vii) 328pp.; (viii) 350pp.; (viii) 331pp.; (viii) 355pp.
Motteaux's translation of one of the foremost pieces of European literature, Cervantes' Don Quixote.
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Including coloured frontispieces to each volume. New edition, with copious notes, and an essay on the life and writings of Cervantes. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). In a 2002 list, Don Quixote was cited as the "best literary work ever written". Complete in five volumes.

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In diced calf bindings. Volume I has been rebacked. Externally, sound, though with some wear to the boards, rubbing, and some marks. Two joints are starting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, though with some offsetting from the plates, and a few instances of foxing.

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