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L'ingénieux hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche / Miguel de Cervantès ; traduction, Louis Viardot ; illustrations de Dubout.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ6330 .A2 1938 t.1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
- Standardized Title:
- Don Quixote. French
- Language:
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish fiction--Translations into French.
- Spanish fiction.
- French fiction--Translations from Spanish.
- French fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Reliure Schumacher Berne (stamp) (RBC copy)
- Smith, Paul, 1934-2024 (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : Sous l'Emblème du secrétaire, 1938.
- Notes:
- "Il a été tirè de cet ouvrage: 48 exemplaires sur royal Vidalon, numérotés de 1 à 48 et comprenant une suite des hors texte sur royal Vidalon et une aquarelle hors texte originale. 240 exemplaires sur royal Vidalon, numérotés de 41 à 288 et comprenant une suite des hors texte sur royal Vidalon et une aquarelle orginale. 1.800 exemplaires sur vélin Bulky, numérotés de 289 à 2.088. 56 exemplaires de collaborateurs numérotés de I à LVI."--Vol. 1, half-t.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan G. Chester and Florence K. Chester Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Paul C. Smith Endowed Fund.
- RBC copy is no. 584 of a limited edition of 2088 Arabic-numbered copies. Cf. v. 1, half-t.p. verso.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Antiquariat Daniel Thierstein.
- RBC copy: each vol. bound by Reliure Schumacher Berne (with binder's stamp in gold at foot of back pastedown) in quarter gold-ruled green leather (spine faded to brown) over marbled paper boards; 5 raised bands on spine; author's name, brief title and vol. number stamped in gold on spine; gilt tops.
- RBC copy: each vol. has publisher's original paper wrappers bound in.
- RBC copy: v. 1 has bookmark with quotation from Julius Langbehn ("Nur ein Herz kann Herzen gewinnen") on recto and ms. inscription ("Là, ton doux souvenir veille à jamais à l'ombre de ma fidélité. V.") in pencil on verso.
- OCLC:
- 1154506
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