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[SPANISH LITERATURE]. PEREZ DE HITA, Gines. Historia de las guerras civiles de granada.

En Amberes [i.e. Antwerp]. Por Henrico y Cornelio Verdussen, 1714.
8vo. [8], 336, 331-680pp, [2]. Text complete despite erratic pagination. Handsomely bound in nineteenth century russia, tooled in gilt and blind, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate in sanguine (superimposed on an earlier bookplate) of Thomas Merthyr Guest to FEP
An early eighteenth century revised edition of the first part of Gines Perez de Hita's (1544-1619) Historia de los vandos de los Zegries y Abencerrages (1595-1619), widely considered the first Spanish historical novel. The book's portrait of the chivalrous Moorish family of the Abencerrages did much to establish the stereotype of the romantic Moor in European literature.

Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904), Welsh industrialist and landowner, husband to author and benefactor Lady Theodora Guest [née Grosvenor] (1840-1924).
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref: 23536