CERVANTES and TOUCHET, Jacques. Don Quixote of La Mancha. - Lot 152

CERVANTES and TOUCHET, Jacques. Don Quixote of La Mancha. Paris, Editions du Rameau d'Or, n.d. [1945]. 4 tomes in 4 vols., in-4, uncut, paperback; printed and illustrated two-tone covers with flaps. 227; 248; 217; and 252 pp., with numerous color illustrations in headbands. Some creases on the spines and a few foxing spots on the edges. Illustrated edition featuring original watercolors by Jacques Touchet (1887–1949). Limited edition of 1,000 copies; this one is one of 900 numbered copies on “hermine” paper from the Boucher paper mills (no. 488). Numerous end-text illustrations and initial letters in black, some of which are quite humorous, enliven the tale of the ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha. Copy in very good condition.