CERVANTES, Miguel de.
Vida Y Hechos del Ingeniso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.
“THE TRUTH MAY BE STRETCHED THIN, BUT IT NEVER BREAKS, AND IT ALWAYS SURFACES ABOVE LIES, AS OIL FLOATS ON WATER": Rare 18th century printing of Miguel de Cervantes' Masterpiece Vida y Hechos del Ingenioso Cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha
Tarragona: Joseph Barber, 1757.
$4,800.00
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Item Number: RRB-149186
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Eighteenth century finely bound example of Cervantes’ masterpiece “which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English” (Bloom). Duodecimo, four volumes, bound in full uniform contemporary limp parchment, woodcut title page vignettes, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. In very good condition. Housed in two custom board book boxes with morocco spine fronts. Ownership inscriptions to the front pastedowns of the first two volumes. From the collection of Ken Rapoport with his ownership plates to the front pastedowns of each volume. An exceptional presentation.
"Cervantes' great, ironical, romantic story is written in a style so noble, so nervous, so humane, so branded with reality that, as the wise critic has said, the mere touch and impact of it puts courage into our veins… Not to have ever opened it… is to have missed being present at one of the 'great gestures' of the undying, unconquerable spirit of humanity" (Powys, 27). Widely regarded as "the first modern novel", Cervantes' masterpiece was first published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. This, the first known edition of the first part of Don Quixote printed in Barcelona, was printed by Bautista Sorita for three different Barcelona booksellers: Miguel Gracián, Juan Simón and Rafael Vives. The second part was printed simultaneously in 1617 by Sebastián Matevad for the same booksellers making the two parts combined the first complete edition of Don Quixote, though just as the two parts were usually bound separately, they are now found typically found separately when they seldom appear.
Vida Y Hechos del Ingeniso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.
$4,800.00
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