CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. The First Part of the History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha translated

out of the Spanish by Thomas Shelton MDCXII * The Second Part... written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes and now translated into English MDCXX. 2 volumes. Folio, original dark green morocco, spines in six compartments with seven raised bands, gilt-lettered in three; some very faint discoloration on page 267 in Volume 1; uncut. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1927-28 LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 225 COPIES ON PAPER of an edition of 245. Printed in Ptolemy type in double column in black and red, chapter headings in red beneath chapter numbers in black, two three-quarter page-borders and the 12-line smaller initial capitals or short words of a large stylized vine-leaf pattern (black outline on white ground) designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W. M. Quick and Geo. H. Ford. Hornby XXXVI ("These two volumes... were the first to be printed in my new Ptolemy type...").