DON QUIXOTE ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER CRANE - Lot 168

DON QUIXOTE ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER CRANE [No author's name!]. DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA. London, Blackie & son, 1900. One small volume in-4° (xii, 245 pp, 11 plates h. -t. ), full publisher's polychrome boards. First edition (?) of illustrations by Walter Crane, including eleven hors-texte in color. This is a children's adaptation by Judge Parry. Publisher's preface and index of plates. In Great Britain, four centuries after its publication, the author's name has completely disappeared. Don Quixote has become a myth, a legend beyond time and space! The work was printed in Edinburgh by T. A. Constable. Palau, 52624: es un arreglo de la primera parte. Henrich, 489: Edicion arreglada para la juventud. Megias, Los primeros Ilustradores p. 14. Handwritten letter dated 1903 on blank flyleaf.