Description:
Pages: 644
Binding:
Sewn well.
Hard covers of good execution.
- The Miniature Book containing a Microscopic Edition of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
- It has numerous full-page illustrations, but inserted in the text, as it is on the back of each sheet. It also has many other Illustrations inserted in the text.
- Illustrations engraved by Carretero and Sampietro, based on drawings by M. Ángel.
- It has in the Cover a stamp of Exlibris with a "L".
Parts of the book:
- Single volume. Copy with the complete text.
- Cover. Cervantes" engraving. Cover. Dedication to the Duke of Béjar. Prologue. Praise. Part One. Cover Part Two. Dedication to the Count of Lemos. Prologue. Part Two. Table of Contents. Three Announcement Sheets.
Description of the Book:
- Sewn binding, with untreated guillotine cuts.
- Hard cardboard covers, covered on the outside with colour lithographs.
- Spine covered with colour lithography, with the title "D. Quijote de la Mancha".
- White bone paper, very thin and regular quality.
- Black single-colour printing, very good inks, with good printing, and in general well centred and with good margins.
Conservation and damages:
- The Miniature Book is in a bad general state, being very tired.
- The covers and spine are in bad condition. The edges are broken and very grazed, especially the corners and ends. The colour lithographs are very dark, breaking off in some parts in very small pieces, mainly in the Spine.
- The Spine is stuck to the Body of the Book, which prevents the Miniature Book from being opened properly.
- The Cuts are badly preserved and dirty. Slight marks of humidity.
- It does not have any guards or front and back respect pages.
- The pages of the text are in good condition, somewhat darkened by the passage of time, and with some points of rust.
Comments:
- Both the Measures, and the Weight, are approximate.
- To make the photos of the Interior Pages, these have been fixed with tweezers.
- Miniature book ideal as a collector"s item. It is difficult to find in good condition. It presents the wear and tear of its time.
- Because it is inevitable the differences of tonalities between photos and reality, you must have in mind that the tones of the colours of the photos are not exactly equal to the tones of the real colours.
- The Miniature Book on sale is the one corresponding to the photos, which in turn are complemented in this Description, with the aim of providing a better knowledge of the Object, and never being a detailed exhibition of it.
- The data provided here are not contrasted personal opinions.
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