The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Rare and modern books
Potocki, Jan
Viking,
1995
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Rare and modern books
Potocki, Jan
Viking,
1995
50.00 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1995
- ISBN
- 0670834289
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Potocki, Jan
- Publishers
- Viking
- Size
- 9.5 x 6.25 inches
- Keyword
- 18th Century, Fiction, Europe, Inquisition, Stories, Enlightenment
- Cover description
- Very Good (+)
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very tiny nick/crease to top of spine. 631pp. Stories within stories within stories. Beginning in 1739 when a Walloon officer serving the King of Spain is plunged into a series of adventures. One of the great masterpieces of subversion and an encyclopedia of the dark side of the European Enlightenment. Written in French around the end of the 18th century. First edition of the 1995 translation by Ian Maclean. Tucked in is a printed sheet of additional notes on the book.
