Description:
Binding: Very well-executed sewn binding.
Hard leather covers and very good execution.
Description of contents:
- Portraits and Comments on the Animals that appear in Don Quixote de la Mancha, and the circumstances surrounding them.
- It has 15 plates outside the text, with drawings of portraits of the animals, done in charcoal pencil by Fernán Edex.
Parts of the Miniature Book: Title page. Legal page. Title page. Legal page. Contents of the work. Text with 15 plates outside the text. Index of Chapters. Colophon.
Description of the Miniature Book:
- Very tightly bound, with untreated guillotined Cuts.
- Brown leather hard covers, very good execution, printed in gilt, with decorations and the title "Los Animales en el Quijote".
- Spine printed in gilt, very good execution, with ornaments and the titles "Los Animales en el Quijote" and "Microliber".
- Flyleaves with medium thick paper, printed in blue, with watermarks and the portraits of Cervantes and Don Quixote.
- Text on thick, thick, very good quality, bone white paper.
- Laminates with off-white paper, of medium thickness and very good quality.
- Black printing, very good ink, good margins, centred and very good quality.
Conservation and damage:
- Conservation of the Miniature Book is excellent.
- The gilt covers and spine have lost a lot of vividness, especially on the spine.
- The Miniature Book has not suffered from external aggressions such as humidity, insect attacks, rodents, etc.
- It shows wear and tear typical of its age.
Comments:
- Both the Measurements and the Weight are approximate.
- To take the photos of the Inside Pages, they have been held with tweezers.
- Very interesting miniature book as a collector"s item and curiosity.
- The tones of the colours in the photos are not exactly the same as the tones of the real colours.
- The Miniature Book for sale is the one that corresponds to the photos. The description is not a detailed exposition of it.
- The data provided here are personal opinions not contrasted.
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