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CRUIKSHANK, George, Illustrator; Henry David Inglis.

Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote.

Stock Code
95954
London, Whittaker and Co., 1837
£1,250

'A work from which I have derived more information than from all the state documents I ever perused.' Lord Aberdeen's Speech.

This bold claim appears on the very first page of the present edition, but is completely at odds with the tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating style in which the rest of the work is written. Many of the chapters, for example, feature sardonic titles such as 'Wherein the author - and through him, the reader - receive some information not unworthy of being known, and at the conclusion of which, the author is left asleep in the reputed house of Don Quixote, to the envy, no doubt, of the reader...'

Henry David Inglis (1795 – 1835) was a Scottish travel writer and novelist who sometimes used the pseudonym Derwent Conway. Over the course of his short life he published works on a great number of European countries including Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, France, Spain, modern-day

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Description

First edition. 8vo. Title vignette, 6 etched plates and tailpiece by Cruikshank. Turn-of-the-century green crushed morocco gilt by Hyman Zucker with original covers bound in, housed in a custom blue-green cloth slipcase.

Bibliography

Cohn 433.

Stock ID:95954

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