Illustrated work with a total of 38 beautiful lithographs.
Two volumes bound in a single volume. Illustrated with a total of 38 beautiful lithographs (19 in each volume). Covered with a superb full leather binding signed by Antolín Palomino, one of the best Spanish bookbinders of the 20th century.
There are leather mosaics on both sides with gilt on the corners. The spine is also adorned with a multitude of gilt elements and leather inlays. On the back covers of both planes we find two superb medieval scenes also in leather mosaic and framed in a gilt frame. Gilt edges. Kept in cloth and velvet preservation case.
El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente is a romantic novel by Mariano José de Larra, whose chivalrous plot is set in the 15th century, during the reign of Enrique III of Castile, known as “el Doliente” due to his constant illnesses.
A man of a romantically convulsive existence, a prestigious columnist at the time of the first flourishing of journalism in Spain, Larra’s successful professional life contrasts with his notorious love failures, which led him to commit suicide at the age of twenty-eight. El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente recreates the vicissitudes of Macías, the eternal troubadour in love with a married lady. The jealousy of the husband provokes the death of the doncel, comparable to the author himself, who would put an end to his life due to a sentimental failure.
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