l'Ingenieux chevalier Don Quichotte de La Manche. Traduction Nouvelle. Illustre par Grandville
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Tours: A Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires, 1858. Both parts, abridged, but then it is the Grandville steel engravings that are the attraction here; good strong strikes if a bit diminutive, no patch on Dore' of course. Hardbound in quarter pressed morocco with morocco corner-tips over green cloth boards, old marbled endsheets, a nineteenth century custom job in sound shape, details below, but first of all, item has been sophisticated by a clever amateur. The giveaway is the much-too-strong tint (a modern dark blue) to textblock edges which clashes with book's general aesthetic; adroitly applied (edge tints are dry, stroked on with saturated cottonball) but simply not comme il faut. Done to disguise an ex library state? possibly. Further, the corner-tips have most probably been strengthened with glue. As for the item as it stands, there are trivial abrasions, and text paper is not fully alkaline and is foxed throughout. nothing else to report. Plates are all in good condition, these were struck on alkaline tissue and laid down on thickish alkaline paper. Viva Grandville! who has his own personal vision of our madman.
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Details
- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 251796
- Title
- l'Ingenieux chevalier Don Quichotte de La Manche. Traduction Nouvelle. Illustre par Grandville
- Author
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A Mame et Cie, Imprimeurs-Libraires
- Place of Publication
- Tours
- Date Published
- 1858
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated books; Francophone+; France; 1850s;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
All books subject to prior sale Major Institutions can be billed. ALL BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION OR BETTER UNLESS NOTED. All books returnable for any reason within thirty days of receipt.
About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...