Auction: November 17, 2026

Lot #428: Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote" 1711 Edward Ward Adaptation Full Leather Edition

2-volume set, complete, 1st edition, T. Norris and A. Bettesworth, London 1711-1712, full title "The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha / Merrily translated into Hudibrastick verse, by Edward Ward", being a loose translation by the British humorist and tavern keeper, full leather, gilt ruled boards, gilt decorated spines having raised bands, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece portrait volume #1, both having armorial bookplates of Joseph Swift Whistler, the artist's nephew