Item #36092 The Spanish Novelists: A Series of Tales, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the Originals with Critical and Biographical Notes. 3 Volumes. Thomas Roscoe, Mendoza Cervantes, et. al, compiler and.
The Spanish Novelists: A Series of Tales, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the Originals with Critical and Biographical Notes. 3 Volumes
The Spanish Novelists: A Series of Tales, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the Originals with Critical and Biographical Notes. 3 Volumes
The Spanish Novelists: A Series of Tales, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the Originals with Critical and Biographical Notes. 3 Volumes

The Spanish Novelists: A Series of Tales, from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the Originals with Critical and Biographical Notes. 3 Volumes

London: Richard Bentley, 1832. Hardcover. A presention copy from the author, with inscription to the top of the title page in Volume II: "H. Hole Esq. with the author's best regards." Thomas Roscoe (1791 - 1871) was an English translator and also a novelist who enjoyed studying the work by other European novelists. In the preface he writes: "In the following series of national novels, connected with the secondary class of prose fiction so abounding in Spanish literature, it has been the humble endeavour of the translator, upon a similar plan with the Italian and the German specimens, to convey to the English reader some idea of its rise and progress, as well as of the peculiar manners, customs, modes of thinking at different periods, as exhibited in this form of composition." Includes Don Juan Manuel, Mendoza, Mateo Aleman, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Matias de los Reyes, Don Christoval Lozano, Luis Veliz de Guavara, Isidro de Robles, Alonzo del Castillo Salorzano, Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, Doctor don Juan Perez de Montalvan, Antionio de Eslava, and Donna Maria de Zayas I Soto Mayor. Each author or tale is introduced by the compiler, Thomas Roscoe. All volumes are bound in matching three quarter tan leather over pink and brown marbled paper covered boards. Lacks title and volume labels. Gilt decoration to spine compartments. Wear to edges of boards, rubbing to boards and hinges. Large chip to leather on foot of spine of Volume II. A few chips to leather on boards. The front hinge of Volume I is starting. Marbled endpapers and full marbled edges. Occasional spots of foxing to interiors, but clean and bright overall. A worn, but still reasonably attractive set. Volume I: 360 pages; Volume II: 341 pages; Volume III: 321 pages. LIT/110922. Very Good.

Item #36092

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