Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada...Author’s Revised Edition.
Book Description
‘Agapida Edition’; 2 vols, large 8vo (220 x 145 mm.); decorative borders and Moorish-style endpapers by Alice C. Morse, 30 plates with captioned tissue guards; publisher’s white cloth with elaborate ornamental arabesques and other designs in gilt, green & pink to covers and spines, t.e.g., a little minor rubbing and bumping to extremities, but overall excellent, preserved in the original paper-lined blue cloth dust-jackets with titles stamped in gilt to spines.
Dealer Notes
A handsome set of this work chronicling the struggles between the Castilian sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella and the Kingdom of Granada, originally published in 1850 and taken in large part from the fragmentary manuscript remains of Fray Antonio Agapida’s contemporary accounts. The scarce original dust-jackets have done an admirable job in preserving the underlying books and the designs of Alice C. Morse, resulting in an exceptional, bright and clean set.
Author
IRVING, Washington.
Date
1893
Binding
Publisher’s white cloth with elaborate ornamental arabesques and other designs in gilt, green & pink to covers and spines; dust-jackets.
Publisher
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Illustrator
LAWRENCE, Richard H.
Condition
Excellent
Friends of the PBFA
For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.
Please email info@pbfa.org for more information