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Espinel, Vicente (1550-1624) Relaciones de la Vida del Escudero Marcos de Obregon.
Barcelona: Sebastian Cormellas, 1618.
Second edition, same year as first, octavo, woodcut figures to title; bound in full contemporary limp parchment, with gilt-tooled leather spine label; original endbands intact; lacking ties; an attractive copy; 5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Palau 82587; Salva 1796 mentions the existence of the book, although he did not have a copy in his collection.
"The Escudero Marcos de Obergon has, on many accounts, attracted attention, and deserves to be remembered as the best of its kind in Spanish literature except Lazarillo and Guzman [...] though it falls below both in the beauty of style, it has more life in its action than either of them, and the series of its events is carried on with greater rapidity, and brought to a more regular conclusion." (Cf. Catalogue of the Spanish Library and of the Portuguese Books Bequeathed by George Ticknor.)
