Nonesuch Press - Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de). Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote de la Mancha. Motteux translation revised anew & corrected, rectified and filled up in numberless places by J.Ozell, who likewise added the explanatory notes from the best editions in English & Spanish. Reprinted with twenty-one illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer. Two vols, 8vo, pp.ix[1], 501 + 11 plates & pp.vi, 548 + 10 plates, London: The Nonesuch Press, 1930.

Number 645 of 1,475 sets printed on thin hand-made paper at Cambridge University Press. Hand-engraved Goudy titling on the title-page in terracotta. 21 full-page llustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer hand-coloured by pochoir at the Curwen Press. Full natural morocco, maroon leather labels titled in gilt, all edges uncut, gold tops. Boards slightly spotted, spines unevenly darkened. Marbled paper slipcase rbbed. A very good set.

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