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[CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.]
The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. Now Carefully Revised and Corrected: with a new Translation of the Spanish Poetry. To Which is Prefixed a Copious and New Life of Cervantes; Including a critique of the Quixote; also a Chronological Plan of the Work. Embellished with New Engravings, and a Map of Part of Spain. In Four Volumes.
An attractively bound set of the celebrated translation of Don Quixote by the Irish-born Charles Jervas (1675–1739), a member of the literary circle of Addison, Pope and Swift, and also an eminent artist. First published posthumously in 1742 and frequently reprinted, Jervas's translation is generally acknowledged as being close in spirit to the original.
4 volumes, octavo (213 × 130 mm). Contemporary diced calf, titles and tooling to spines gilt, black stripes and gilt roll to raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges, double line ruling to boards gilt. Bookplate to volume I. Lightly rubbed at extremities, spines a little tanned, joints starting, light offsetting from plates but contents very clean otherwise. An excellent set.
