SENDING OF TONY JOHANNOT - CERVANTES. The Ingenious... Lot 26

[SENDING OF TONY JOHANNOT] - CERVANTES. The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated and annotated by Louis Viardot. Paris, J.-J. Dubochet et Cie, 1836-37. 2 large volumes in-8 half olive green calf, richly decorated smooth spines, gilt title, brown leather headpieces (period bindings). 2 frontispieces printed on China paper, 2 engraved titles, and first printing of some 800 vignettes by Tony Johannot, in the text and out of text (Carteret, III, 136). PRECIOUS EXAMPLE enriched with an ENVOILED FROM TONY JOHANNOT "to Mr. Joseph Marc". The artists' sendings in the works of this period are very rare. A few scattered freckles, small rubs to the spine. Expert : Jean-Louis Beauvais