Marvelous Crackjoke, Kenny Meadows, John Gilbert - The wonderful adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha - 3 copies from the same edition, with - 1872

3 copies from the same edition, with different bindings

Adapted for Youthful Readers. The wonderful adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, and Sancho Panza, his esquire. Abridged, and adapted to youthful capacities by Sir Marvelous Crackjoke. With illustrations by Kenny Meadows & John Gilbert. London: Dean & Son, Printers and Publishers, (1872)

[1-5], 6-59 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated title-page. Illustrated. 24,5 x 18,5 cm. The 3 copies with cloth binding with gold lettering and gold and impressed decorations. The illustrations comprise: frontispiece and 3 full-page plates opposite pp. 8, 14 and 16, inscribed ‘Taylor’, ‘Wass & Taylor’, ‘Taylor & Wass’, and ‘Taylor & Wass Glyphography’ respectively, these are all according to Ashbee, engraved from designs by Adolf Schroedter, first published in Leipzig in 1863, 9 wood engravings in the text,

[Ashbee 263, Rius 709, Suñé 451]