PRICE BOOK - Lot 257

PRICE BOOK CERVANTES (Michel). ADVENTURES OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHE. Paris, E. Ducrocq successor to P. C. Lehuby, [1862?] Two volumes in two in-12 volumes (324 pp // fr. 300 pp) half burgundy chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt caissons, gilt plate of the Lycée impérial de Rouen on the first two covers. (Contemporary bindings) A good copy. Edition revised and corrected by M. l'abbé Lejeune, Canon, Professor at the Faculty of Theology of Rouen. New edition, new illustrated translation by Célestin Nanteuil. The two frontispieces are by Budzilowicz. Palau, 52850 reports the same edition in-4° and not in-12 with six plates (this is probably an error). LA BIBLIOTHEQUE ROSE. (Included). CERVANTES SAAVEDRA. STORY OF THE ADMIRABLE DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHE. Paris, Hachette, This edition (and subsequent ones) is illustrated with 64 vignettes by Bertall and Forest. Palau, 52864. [Four other editions are included] The second from 1868 in half-binding (Henrich, 368). Two editions in full red publisher's boards, dated 1888 and 1899 (Fer du Lycée Racine on the second plate). This multiplicity of editions underlines the great success of this masterpiece in schools in the second half of the 19th century. (Included). CERVANTES (Michel). DON QUICHOTTE DE LA MANCHE. Paris, Théodore Lefèvre et Emile Guérin, [1887?] One volume in-8°, full red percaline decorated with a large gilded plate depicting our two heroes (Binding signed Engel) Nice copy. A fine abridged edition for young people, based on Florian's translation. It is illustrated with a portrait and twenty plates from an 18th-century suite. Not cited by Henrich. Palau, 52906.