2 volumes, 12mo (126 x 63 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved title. (Very minor spotting.) Contemporary light green calf gilt, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (some chipping or rubbing, hinges starting). Provenance: Harry F. Marks (bookseller’s stamp); W. & G. Folye, Ltd. (bookseller’s ticket).

 

Later edition of Smollett’s English translation of Don Quixote, first published in 1755, and remaining very popular. Smollett “endeavored to retain the spirit and ideas without servilely adhering to the literal expression of the original; from which, however, he has not so far deviated, as to destroy that formality of idiom so peculiar to the Spaniards, and so essential to the character of the work” (Translator’s Aim, p. xv).