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Dawson's
Los Angeles
Feb '98
$35
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Don Quixote
Ashendene Press - 1927
Copy: HEHL, Stanford.
Biblio. XXXVI Don Quixote - transl. by Thomas Shelton + 1st printed by
William Stansby in the year 1612.
The Shelley House. Chelsea in the County of London
MXmxxvii
printed by St. John Jornby
assisted by G. Faulkner pressman + I. Jenkins
compositor - begun Nov. 1925, ended May 1927
- initials + borders - designed by Louise Powell +
cut on wood by W. M. Quick + Geo H. Ford.
- paper by J. Batchelor + son of Ford Mill.
Little Chart, Kent
225 on paper, 20 on vellum (17 for sale at 75 guineas each vol.)
folio. [A] 8 leaves; B-X, Z in sixes; AA 4 leaves
Pp. 2 + x + 260 (428x300 mm)
text of history pp 1-256
these 2 vol. were the 1st to be printed in his
new Ptolemy type. Hornby used it for 3 other
late productions of the press before it closed in 1935.
- Jowett's translation of Thucydides, the Amours (See #493)
Pastorales de Daphnis + Chloe + his Bibliography.