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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The First Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. 2 volumes. Translated by Thomas Shelton. Printed in red and black in Ptolemy type. Text in double columns. Woodcut border and initials designed by Louise Powell and cut by W.M. Quick and George H. Ford. Large folio, original full gilt-lettered pigskin, spines with usual yellowing, light finger soiling to covers, thin scuff to lower portion of front cover of Volume 2; custom modern board folding boxes. Chelsea, 1927-28
one of 225 unnumbered sets. "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 initials, 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 57; Hornby XXXVI.
