INGLIS (H.D.).

Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote.

First edition. With title page vignette, tailpiece and 6 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. 8vo. Original blind embossed green cloth boards, with spine decorated in gilt; spine a little cocked, corners rubbed, plates (esp. frontis.) foxed. xii, 203, [1]blank pp. London: Whittaker and Co., 1837.

£120.00

Published posthumously by the author’s widow, this curious travel narrative sees Inglis tread in the footsteps of Don Quixote. In a number of interesting passages, he describes the various local reactions to the concept of his journey and comments on the extraordinary popularity of Cervantes’s great work.

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