The Amusing Adventures of Guzman of Alfaraque, a Spanish Novel ;

1883: London, Vizetelly. Octavo, custom bound in blond half calf and pale marbled paper baords; viii, 478 p. ill. 2l cm. Send binding. A legitimately deaccessioned ex-library copy with very minimal labeling (from a graduate seminar library ; circulated only twice); small bookplate, circulation slip and red institutional stamp to lower margins of three pagesonbly. Near Fine thus. Hardcover.

Preusmably scarce thus, in such a hadnsome, sturdy binding. Translation of: Guzman of Alfaraque. (Unclear whether this work comprises both volumes, though it probably does.). A picaresque novel published in two parts: Madrid,1599 as: Primera parte de Guzmán de Alfarache; the second in 1604, as: Segunda parte de la vida de Guzmán de Alfarache, atalaya de la vida humana. Guzmán de Alfarache, Spanish literature, Picaresco, Picaresque. Children; Street urchins; Spain