The Ingenious Knight. Don Quixote De La Mancha.

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Translated by Alexander James Duffield.

Item Number: 135819

London: Published by C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1881.

Finely bound English translation of Cervantes’ masterpiece, extra-illustrated with 52 engraved plates. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, hand-colored engraved frontispiece of Cervantes, extra-illustrated with 51 additional engraved plates. In fine condition. A very attractive set.

Often cited as the first modern novel, Cervantes' masterpiece Don Quixote remains not only the most influential work of literature to emerge from the Spanish Golden Age, but the most important work of the entire Spanish literary canon. For its influence, innovation and critical status, it is "to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English" (Bloom) and has become globally regarded as "one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times" (PMM).