The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

625, [3] pp. 8vo. Dark brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated from the Spanish by J.M. Cohen, with illustrations by Gustave Dore. The classic tale of a man who reads too many romances and begins to believe that he's an errant knight. It is the source of the phrase 'tilting at windmills'.