(ASHENDENE PRESS) Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de Don Quixote

Sale 2269 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 2,280

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quixote. 2 volumes. Printed in red and black in Ptolemy type. Text in double columns. Woodcut border and initials by W.M. Quick and George H. Ford. Large folio, original white cloth-backed patterned boards, printed paper labels to spines, uncut, spines soiled, minor edgewear; slipcase, smudging. Norman J. Sondheim bookplates. (London, 1927-[28])

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one of 225 sets on paper. "Taken as a single work Don Quixote is the largest of the Ashendene books. It has an interesting alternative to Hewitt's drawn or printed intials, the successful but unrepeatable device of neo-Kelmscott initials, borders and opening words cut on wood from designs by Louise Powell...This link with the Kelmscott past was an entirely successful venture." Franklin, The Ashendene Press, 241-242.