Literature, Spanish – Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de, 1547-16...

Hammer

£50

Literature, Spanish – Cervantes Saavedra (Miguel de, 1547-1616), The History of Don Quixote, ed. J. W. Clark, with biographical note by Revd. Canon T. Teignmouth Shore, illus. Gustave Doré, London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, n. d. [c. 1870] 4to, xxviii + 737pp, 118 engraved plates numerous monochrome vignettes, heraldic bkplt. Burt, foxing to titles, marbled endpapers (front one detached), bound scuffed and worn half leather over brown boards, five raised bands and gilt titles to spine (1)
***The arms on the bookplate were granted (without crest) to William Matthew Burt, MP, Governor of the Leeward Islands who died at Maiden Erleigh in 1781