LAZARILLO BY DIDOT - Lot 105

LAZARILLO BY DIDOT HURTADO DE MENDOZA (Diego). ADVENTURES AND ESPIEGLERIES OF LAZARILLE DE TORMES, written by himself. Paris, Imprimerie de Didot Jeune, 1801. One volume in-8 (VIII pp, 182 pp), full porphyry calf, gilt lace on boards, finely decorated smooth spine, speckled edges (Fine and elegant period binding). New edition, decorated with forty figures (including a portrait) drawn and engraved by N. Ransonnette (a pupil of Choffard). One of the jewels of Spanish literature, and prototype of the picaresque novel, this book has its origins in an anonymous 16th-century novel, later attributed to Hurtado de Mendoza, statesman, historian and poet, author of "L'Histoire de la Guerre de Grenade". Very fine impression by Didot. Palau, 133488 : la primera con estas laminas.