1936 Don Quichotte de a Manche. Edition Reduite et Mise a la Portee de La Jeunesse.

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

This work is in the original French. With sixteen charming coloured plates by the renowned French artist, illustrator of books and magazines and comic book writer Rene Giffey. Giffey is commonly cited as one of the most prolific artists of the first half of the twentieth century, as well as a prolific author of a vast range of works in his fifty-year career. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, picturing Don Quixote's humourous attack on a windmill that he believes to be ferocious giants. With 'Huitieme Mille' (eighth thousand) to the title page.