‘THE BEST CRITICAL EDITION OF THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF EL DORADO’

Full title: The Discoverie of the Large and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh. Edited from the Original Text, with Introduction, Notes and Appendixes of Hitherto Unpublished Documents by V.T. Harlow

Quarto in 8s (256 x 191mm), pp. [2 (blank)], cvi, 182, [2 (colophon, blank)]. Engraved portrait frontispiece after George Vertue, retaining tissue guard, colour-printed woodcut title-vignette by and after William Monk, 2 folding maps, one with route in red, and full-page facsimile illustration of the title-page of the first edition. (Some scattered light spotting, one map slightly creased at edge.) Original vellum-backed brown buckram, Raleigh’s arms in gilt on upper board, spine lettered in gilt, silk marker, uncut and unopened, except where necessary to insert frontispiece and maps. (Some slight fading and very light marking, corners very lightly rubbed and bumped, small mark on rear endpapers.) A very good, unopened copy. Provenance: Madge Moody, November 1941 (ownership inscription on front free endpaper).