COMICAL WORKS OF DON FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO, AUTHOR OF THE VISIONS: CONTAINING 1. THE NIGHT-ADVENTURER . . . VII. FORTUNE IN HER WITS, OR THE HOUR OF ALL MEN
first edition Hardcover
1707 · London
by Quevedo, Francisco de
London: Printed, and are to be sold by John Morphew, 1707. First English edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket. London: Printed, and are to be sold by John Morphew, 1707. Translated by John Stevens. First English edition. Frontisportrait of Quevedo. [12], 564 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Full speckled calf. Blind stamped fillet to spine edges of boards. Compartments gilt-stamped. Gilt rule to board edges. Edges red speckled.. Signatures: A6, B-Z8, Aa-Nn8, Oo2. Containing, 1) The night-adventurer, or The day-hater; 2. The life of Paul, the Spanish sharper; 3) The retentive Knight and his epistles; 4) The dog and the fever; 5) A proclamation, by old Father Time; 6) A treatise of all things whatsoever; 7) Fortune in her wits, or The hour of all men. Head of spine lacking 3 mm, both hinges cracked through, and boards attached by cords only. Endpapers toned at edges. Bookplate on front pastedown. ESTC T88965. Overall, quite good. /No dust jacket. (Insurance required to ship this item). (Inventory #: 35805)