CERVANTES, Miguel de “Adventures of Don Quixote” [George Routledge & Sons, 1869]

CERVANTES, Miguel de. Adventures of Don Quixote.

London: George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate; New York: 416 Broome Street, 1869. Translated from the Spanish by Charles Jarvis. 7" x 5.25", xii + 531pp with 4 illustrated plates. Bound in nineteenth-century red half leather over marbled boards with raised bands, gilt rules, and marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Rubbing and loss to the leather at spine ends and edges; joints worn but holding; interior generally clean with light scattered foxing. Chipping to the edge of the rear marbled board. Good+.

A Victorian English edition of Cervantes’ celebrated picaresque novel recounting the misadventures of the delusional knight Don Quixote and his loyal squire Sancho Panza. The Jarvis translation, first published in the eighteenth century, remained one of the most widely read English versions throughout the nineteenth century and appeared in numerous Routledge printings aimed at the expanding middle-class reading public.