Miguel de Cervantes - The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha - 1827

The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the original spanish of MIguel de Cervantes, by Charles Jarvis, Esq. In four volumes. Vol. I (-Vol, IV). Exeter: Stereotyped and Published by J & B. Williams, 1827

4 vols. [Vol.I: [1-3], 4-52, [1], 2-242 pp.; Vol.II: [1-3], 4-264 pp.; Vol.III: [1-3], 4-244
pp.; Vol.IV: [1-3], 4-291 pp.] Frontis, added engraved illustrated title-pages. 13,5 x 8 cm.
Contemporary full leather with gold spine lettering and decorations (fragment missing from the top of the spine of volume I). Rare edition published in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. According to Rius, the frontispieces and added title-page illustrations were copied from a New York edition of 1814.
They are unsigned and uncaptioned but with page references to the relevant text
passage. [Rius 677, Suñé 407, Icon 448] Inscribed on flyleaf of vol.I: “Silas Leonard, Augusta, Maine. Don Quixote De la Mancha, Silas Leonard”. Signature repeated on title-page. Vol.IV lacks its
frontispiece and engraved title-page.