First Folio Society Edition. Published in 1995. 
 
The book is in excellent condition with its original yellow pictorial hardback cloth covers. The book sits in its brown slipcase which has gilt lettering to one side, but there is some damage to the slipcase, which is reflected in the price.
 
This is the modernised translation by Tobias Smollett and includes illustrations by the incredible Quentin Blake. 
 
The book was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled "the first modern novel" and many authors consider it to be the best literary work ever written. Don Quixote also holds the distinction of being the second-most-translated book in the world after the Bible.
 
The plot revolves around the adventures of a noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant to revive chivalry and serve his nation, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical monologues on knighthood, already considered old-fashioned at the time. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story.
 
The book had a major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844), Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897). The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer cited Don Quixote as one of the four greatest novels ever written.