Buy Miniature book (5cm.-10cm.). Don Quixote of La Mancha. 1902

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.