Don Quixote of La Mancha by CERVANTES 1906 illustrated by Baghot de La Bere / John retailer Ormsby Translation

Title: Don Quixote of La Mancha

Author: retailer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated with Introduction and notes by John Ormsby.
Illustrator: Bagnot [Baghot] de La Bere

Description: Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Gilt is still bright; windmill pictorial on front cover. Faint rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Top edge gilt. Interior is clean and unmarked. 12 color illustrations on plates (including frontispiece). Two volumes in one. pp. xci, 444; xiv, 560.

This Crowell edition combines John Ormsby's 1885 translation with the artwork of Baghot de La Bere, which had first appeared in the 1905 British edition brought out by Adam and Charles Black. Although this edition does not have a stated date, it was published in 1906, according the Cumulative Book Index.

Stephen Baghot de La Bere (1877-1927) was an English illustrator and friend of Edmund Dulac.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company
Place: New York
Year: 1906