Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. Embellished with Twenty-Four Highly Finished Engravings, from Drawings Designed Expressly for this Edition.
Four volumes. 24 hand-coloured engravings by Scottish artist John Heaviside Clark. 8vo. Uncut in the original boards, printed paper labels to spines. London, T. McLean, 1819.
A lovely edition of Charles Jervas’ (mistakenly spelled “Jarvis” on the title page) translation of Cervantes’ most famous work in the original publisher’s boards. Jervas’ translation is widely regarded as the best English translation of Don Quixote.
A very good set. Spine ends with some shelf wear and faint traces of a removed label. Endpapers with some foxing and browning as usual, otherwise contents remarkably clean and bright.
