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The Spiritual Quixote: Or the Summer's Ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose A Comic Romance
Richard Graves
1774
J. Dodsley : London
7" by 4"
(xxiv) 352pp.; (viii) 287pp.; (xii) 323pp.
SUMMARY
An eighteenth-century comic romance from Richard Graves.
Illustrated,Leather Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage: £ 22.99
EU Postage: £ 16.99
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DESCRIPTION
Second edition.
Including a vignette title page and three engraved frontispieces.
With 'The Life of the Author' bound in to the front of volume one.
Strongly influenced by Henry Fielding, this episodic novel views an impressive range of society with gentlemanly amusement. His head turned by reading the religious polemics in his family library, Wildgoose becomes an itinerant preacher, abandoning his estate and worthy mother in the company of the hearty cobbler Jerry Tugwell (Sancho Panza to this spiritual Quixote). (DNB)
Complete in three volumes.
Bookplate of S. Knowles to front pastedown.
CONDITION
Rebacked in calf with original boards preserved. Externally, sound, though with some slight wear to the original leather, and some light bumping. Hinges are strained. Pages have some foxing and handling marks throughout.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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