Pablo De Segovia The Spanish Sharper translated from the original of Francisco De Quevedo-Villegas illustrated with one hundred and ten drawings by Daniel Vierge together with comments on them by Joseph Pennell and an Essay on the Life and Writings of Quevedo by Henry Edward Watts

Illustrated English edition of Francisco De Quevedo-Villegas’ picaresque novel (original title Vida Del Buscon, or El Buscon, first published in 1626); here with the illustrations of Daniel Vierge, being both full-page and text drawings; also includes full-page frontispiece plate of Quevedo-Villegas with tissue-guard; commentary on the Drawings of Vierge by Joseph Pennell, essay on the life and writings of Quevedo-Villegas by Henry Edward Watts; this edition was printed with variant bindings, this being the vellum with maroon leather title labels to spine; heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, significant tanning to frontispiece plate; scattered foxing throughout, o.w. Good; boards rubbed and darkened to edges, worn patches to spine; boards a little sprung.