| Nottingham University Library KMC: | Spec. Coll. PR6329.A2.F30 |
| Nottingham University Library KMC: | Spec. Coll. PR6329.A2.F30 |
| British Library: | C.99.h.29 |
| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | |
| Bodleian Library, Oxford: | |
| Cambridge University Library: |
[1]2v
[on insert, coloured black and orange]
[1]3r, p.iii
[lines 1-2 in red] DON QUIXOTE de la Mancha THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA WRITTEN BY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA: MOTTEUX' TRANSLATION REVISED ANEW (1743) & CORRECTED RECTIFIED AND FILLED UP IN NUM- BERLESS PLACES BY J. OZELL WHO LIKEWISE ADDED THE EXPLANATORY NOTES FROM THE BEST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH · REPRINTED WITH TWENTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER [final line red] LONDON : THE NONESUCH PRESS
2-volume set printed at Cambridge U.P.; hand-coloured stencilled illustrations by Curwen (unacknowledged).
[1]4r, p.v
Bibliographical Note: [reprint of 7th edition (1743) of Peter Motteux's translation of Don Quixote. . . then at foot of p.v] The Nonesuch Edition,in two volumes, has been printed and made in England by Walter Lewis, M.A.,printer to the University of Cambridge, on Casinensis hand- made paper, in the year 1930. It consists of 1475 copies of which 575 are for sale by Random House in the United States of America. This is number [space for serial number]
[1]6 2-318; 11 single-leaf unpaged inserts for vol.I illustrations: frontispiece (on p.ix at end of contents) and facing pp.32, 80, 128, 176, 224, 272, 320, 368, 416, 464.
[i-vi] vii-ix [x], 1-501 [+3].
p.vii-ix
| Contents | vii-ix [+i] |
| An account of the Author | 1-501 [+1] |
9" × 5⅝", deckle untrimmed all edges, top edge gilt on the rough, headbands, white laid, no mark; Monotype 12pt. Goudy Modern, with hand-engraved Goudy titling in terra-cotta on t.p.; 6-line dropped initials ( Castellar?) at chapter starts; illustrations grey outline printed by photogravure, hand-coloured (watercolour) stencilled by Curwen Press on inserts; flexibly sewn, full bound in natural niger, medium brown, 5 raised bands, plain end-leaves, red leather spine labels tooled gold: ‘[fillet] DON QUIXOTE VOL. I [fillet]’; apparently issued in thin paper wrappers in marbled-paper-covered slip-case for set.
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added at the suggestion of Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour Ac1; commissioned by Francis Meynell (Flower 1956, p.36); the last Nonesuch book to be stencilled at the Curwen Press (Simon, 1973 p.217).
See Dreyfus 1981 cat.70: the first book to be printed in the Monotype cutting of Goudy Modern; the letterpress printed by Walter Lewis, Cambridge University Press; 21(total) hand-coloured stencilled illustrations done by Curwen Press (Simon, 1973 p.217), but not acknowledged by name in the book. See Gilmour 1977, pp.77-78 on Kauffer's frontispieces.
B.L. copy bears no serial number; Nottingham no.47; no Limitation notice in vol.2.
2/Jan/1931
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Robin Phillips, 2010 6/Jul/2012
| Nottingham University Library KMC: | Spec. Coll. PR6329.A2.F30 |
| British Library: | C.99.h.29 |
| National Art Library (Victoria & Albert Museum): | |
| Bodleian Library, Oxford: | |
| Cambridge University Library: |
[1]3r, p.i
[lines 1-2 in red] DON QUIXOTE de la Mancha THE HISTORY OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA WRITTEN BY MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA: MOTTEUX' TRANSLATION REVISED ANEW (1743) & CORRECTED RECTIFIED AND FILLED UP IN NUM- BERLESS PLACES BY J. OZELL WHO LIKEWISE ADDED THE EXPLANATORY NOTES FROM THE BEST EDITIONS IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH · REPRINTED WITH TWENTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER [final line red] LONDON : THE NONESUCH PRESS
p.550
[1]4r
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: reprint of 7th edition (1743) of Peter Motteux's translation of Don Quixote. . . The Nonesuch edition in 2 vols. printed by Walter Lewis, Cambridge, on Casinensis hand-made paper 1930, consists of 1475 copies of which 575 are for sale by Random House in the U.S.A.
In vol.2 no further Limitation notice appears.
[1]4 2-348 354; 10 single-leaf unpaged inserts for vol.2 illustrations: facing t.p. and after pp.50 98 146 210 290 338 402 482 530.
[2] iii-vi, 1-548 [+4].
iii-vi
| The Author's preface | 1-4 |
| THE LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA: Part II · Book V |
9" × 5⅝", deckle untrimmed all edges, top edge gilt on the rough, headbands,white laid, no mark; Monotype 12pt. Goudy Modern, with hand-engraved Goudy titling in terra-cotta on t.p.; 6-line dropped initials Castellar? at chapter starts; 10 illustrations grey outline printed by photogravure, hand-coloured (watercolour) stencilled by Curwen Press on inserts; flexibly sewn, full bound in natural niger, medium brown, 5 raised bands, plain end-leaves, red leather spine labels tooled gold: ‘[fillet] DON QUIXOTE VOL. II [fillet]’; apparently issued in thin paper wrappers in marbled paper covered slip-case for set.
See notes to vol.1.
2/Jan/1931
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