CON EL BUSCAPIE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de).... Lot 17

CON EL BUSCAPIE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). EL INGENIOSO DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA. Madrid, Gaspar y Roig, 1850. Two volumes in two volumes in-8, bottle-green half calf, very ornate smooth spines (Spanish pastiche of a 19th-century binding). Some spotting. Port. xx f. 772 pp. xxxiv (apendice) 2 ff table. For B USCAPIE xi ff. 84 pp. Novisima edicion clasica, illustrada con notas historicas, gramaticales y criticas segun las de la Academia Espagnola, y sus individuos de numero Pellicer, Arrieta, Clemencin, y por Sales A. M. Aumentada con el BUSCAPIE anotado por Adolfo de Castro. Third enlarged edition of the Buscapie (an advertising brochure, probably mythical, designed to promote Quixote), which proves the commercial success of the first (1847). It is illustrated with a portrait by P. Roca and engravings by Urrabieta, Johannot, Vallejo, Gaspar, Marti, Cibera and Severini (Palau, 52087). Rius, 118: Obra corregida y aumentada en esta tercera edición.