[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce 1 volume Newbery Illustrated abridgment of Don Quixote. 1778

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Cervantes, Miguel de. THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA... Abridged. London: F. Newbery. 1778. 12mo. xii,263,(1)pp. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, complete. Orig. calf, extremities a bit rubbed. Front hinge apparently "repaired" with some light glue. The binding is sound. The final few leaves with minor worming at the blank outer margin.     $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very scarce abridgment of DON QUIXOTE: see Roscoe NEWBERY J50.

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