Description

Alken (Henry) Illustrations of Don Quixote, 3 parts only (of a projected 6), 2 etched titles and 12 etchings designed by Henry Alken and engraved by John C. Zeitten, one with small loss to lower corner, tissue-guards, scattered marginal spotting, 2 parts with plates detached and loosely inserted, printed publication announcement tipped-in to part one, original decorative paper wrappers, previous owner's ink inscription to upper covers, light spotting and staining, creasing and chipping to edges, 2 parts with covers detached, housed in twentieth-century cloth portfolio, bookplate of Paul Wansbrough, hinge strengthened, a little rubbed, folio, 1831.

⁂ This copy matches that of the British Library, suggesting that the first three parts were all that were published.

Scarce at auction. The last copy that we can find at auction was for part one only at Sotheby's in 1980.

Description

Alken (Henry) Illustrations of Don Quixote, 3 parts only (of a projected 6), 2 etched titles and 12 etchings designed by Henry Alken and engraved by John C. Zeitten, one with small loss to lower corner, tissue-guards, scattered marginal spotting, 2 parts with plates detached and loosely inserted, printed publication announcement tipped-in to part one, original decorative paper wrappers, previous owner's ink inscription to upper covers, light spotting and staining, creasing and chipping to edges, 2 parts with covers detached, housed in twentieth-century cloth portfolio, bookplate of Paul Wansbrough, hinge strengthened, a little rubbed, folio, 1831.

⁂ This copy matches that of the British Library, suggesting that the first three parts were all that were published.

Scarce at auction. The last copy that we can find at auction was for part one only at Sotheby's in 1980.

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