BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 34 Smollett’s Important Translation Of Don Quixote, 1755 First Edition, Illustrated By Francis Hayman 44CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (SMOLLETT, Tobias, translator). The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. London, 1755. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary full brown calf neatly rebacked. $4200 First edition of the important Smollett translation of Don Quixote, featuring 28 fine copper-engraved illustrations by Francis Hayman, distinguished in contemporary calf boards. “Tobias Smollett’s translation… contributed much to the reappraisal later in the century of Cervantes as a patriot, a soldier and a model of chivalry himself” (Harthan, 153). “It is... one of the principal versions in which Cervantes’ novel was known to several generations of English and American readers” (Thomas Hart). Its illustrator, Francis Hayman “was the most proficient English illustrator of his time, and this is his best book” (Ray, 5). The illustrations are “surprisingly original… Without downplaying Quixote and Sancho Panza, they bring to life individuals in the large supporting cast who have been totally ignored by other illustrators” (Hodnett, 76-80). “Luxurious edition, impeccably printed, and on excellent paper” (Escudero 1166). Some faint marginal spotting to text, plates clean and fine; light rubbing to corners and spine ends. A handsomely rebacked, wide-margined copy of this illustrated classic. Faulkner’s 1735 Edition Of Swift’s Works, The First Collected Edition, Very Handsomely Bound 45SWIFT, Jonathan. The Works of J.S., D.D, D.S.P.D. in Four Volumes. Dublin, 1735. Four volumes. Octavo, contemporary full mottled brown calf. $8500 First collected edition, containing the definitive edition of Gulliver’s Travels, with four frontispiece portraits and five engraved maps and plates, very handsomely bound. The details of how Dublin printer George Faulkner was chosen by Swift to publish his collected works— as opposed to Swift’s usual publisher, Benjamin Motte, in London—remain contested, but when Motte challenged the edition and obtained an injunction against selling it in England, Swift verified Faulkner’s edition as authorized by him, and continued to work with Faulkner until Swift’s death in 1745. Over subsequent editions, the Works expanded, to six volumes in 1738, eight in 1746 and eleven in 1763, reaching twenty volumes by 1773, shortly before Faulkner’s own death in 1775. This four-volume edition is complete in itself, being the entirety of the 1735 printing. It contains, among other things, the corrected and authorized edition of Gulliver’s Travels, the version still used to this day as the definitive text. Teerink 41. Bookplates. Interiors quite clean, tears to lower corners of leaves C3 and M7 in Volume II. Handsome contemporary calf with expert restoration.
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