Adalantado of the seven cities

Description

Original manuscript and printed text.,Manuscript is inlaid on pages to conform to the size of the printed pages. The manuscript pages are of various sizes.,Printed text which follows the manuscript is taken from "Stories and legends", first published in 1896.,Manuscript was originally in the collection of J. Gaylord Clark, an editor of Knickerbocker magazine in which the story first appeared.,Frontpiece portrait by the John C. Yorston Co. is c1896.,Bound by Stikeman & Co. in purple French levant, with festoons and ornamental gilt tooling, preserved in blue cloth box, velvet lined.,Scanned 9/2002.,P340,Condition: Covers and slipcase rubbed and scratched; pages cockled.,5 8,