- Occas. (sl.) foxed; vol. 1 partly w. sm. tear/ waterstain in margin. Bindings (sl.) worn/ dam. at extremities; spine-ends repaired.
= From the library of H. DE LA FONTAINE VERWEY (his bookplate on upper pastedown of both vols.). Leblanc p.290ff; Carteret III, p.511: "Un des plus beaux livres de Gustave Doré."
Cervantes Saavedra, M. de. l'Ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche. French transl. L. Viardot. Paris, L. Hachette, 1863, 1st ed., 2 vols., (4),XXIII,(1),459,(3); (4),515,(3)p., 120 woodengr. plates and num. ills. by H. PISAN after G. DORÉ, orig. unif. richly gilt cl., folio.
- Both vols. (sl.) foxed throughout. Bindings sl. worn at edges; vol. 1 backstrip (torn off), covers and first few lvs. loose; vol. 2 joints splitting.
= Cf. Rius I, p.587 (ed. 1869); Vicaire II, p.160.
= I.a. M. DECLERCQ, Schijnmanoeuvres (2001); P. DEMETS, Vrees voor het bloemstuk (2002); P. CLAES, Animula (2011); W. STEVENS, Dertien wijzen om naar een merel te kijken. Dutch transl. P. Claes (2012) and D. VAN BASTELAERE, Fallicornia (2014).
- First blank and frontwr. w. narrow and vague waterstain in lower margin. The brittle frontwr. some sl. marginal wear and lacking a sm. portion from the blank fore-edge, lower corner cracked (reattached), and sm. tear at top and foot along spine; backwr. browned. A very good copy.
= Rare. Monod 6133; Bolliger IV, 189: "Eines der bedeutenden illustrierten surrealistischen Bücher". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIX.
- Occas. sl. foxed. Binding sl. rubbed along extremities. = Hughey 47a.
Dulac, E. Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. London etc., idem, n.d. (1915), (8),134,(2)p., tipped-in portr. and 19 col. plates by E. DULAC, orig. dec. cl., 4to.
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Hughey 39d.