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Facsimile edition of the Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, enriched with 13 plates of Folkema engraved by Aveline and Daudet, and a portrait of Cervantes, work of Kent, engraved by Jacquemin. Made by Editors of Rare and Old Books, Circle of the Bibliophile, in 1977 in two wonderful volumes. This edition faithfully reproduces, in the artistic form of its time, the edition illustrated by Salvador Faulí that appeared in Valencia in 1797, the same as the one in Antwerp at the expense of Bousquet y Compañía in 1743.
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Format: in-eighth (13 x 21.3 cm).
Illustrations: 13 plates by Folkema.
Cover pages: polychrome.
Pages: 396 and 444 pages with illustrations out of pagination.
Paper: 90-gram laid paper watermarked with the Bibliophile’s Circle mark, made “in a round shape” according to ancient methods.
Binding: genuine full-length unsawn lambskin, without additions or cuts, olive green color.
Stamping: covers and spines sumptuously decorated in fine 22-carat gold. Upper cut gilded in fine gold.
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Beautiful edition in high bibliophile numbered and limited to 1,499 copies, of one of our classic works of Spanish Literature that should be in every good library. Volumes in perfect condition, new, unused.
Novels in the first volume: La gitanilla. The liberal lover. Rinconete and Cortadillo. The Spanish English. The Bachelor Window. The force of blood.
Novels in the second volume: The jealous Extremaduran. The illustrious mop. The two maidens. Cornelia Mrs. The curious impertinent. The deceitful marriage. Colloquium that took place between Cipión and Berganza (also called “Colloquium of the dogs”).
The publishing project that from 1975 to 1983, under the publishing labels Libros Raros y Antiguos (with 18 titles), Círculo de Amigos de la Historia (with 27 collections and 918 titles) and Editora de los Amigos del Círculo del Bibliofilo (with 157 titles ), represented the most interesting achievement ever made in Bibliophilia. Books with own editions and facsimiles of great quality with bindings that embellish and distinguish any library at very affordable prices.
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