1900 Don Quixote Of The Mancha

Description

Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this retelling by Judge Parry, of the original novel by Miguel de Cervantes. 

In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.

With a frontispiece, illustrated title page, with 10 full page colour plates, and further in text illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. 

The original novel, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish work originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615. It is considered to be a founding work of Western literature and the first modern novel. 

In a hilarious parody of chivalry novels, the plot revolves around the adventures of a member of the lowest nobility, a hidalgo from La Mancha named Alonso Quijano. The character reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant, under the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha. 

The novel covers themes of freedom, loyalty, kindness, cruelty, friendship, insanity and common sense.