{"product_id":"pablo-de-segovia-the-spanish-sharper","title":"Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish sharper","description":"Quevedo's Buscón is the hardest and funniest of the Spanish picaresque novels, and this 1892 English edition is famous for a second reason: Daniel Vierge illustrated it. Vierge drew with a pen in a way that photo-engraving could reproduce exactly, and illustrators from Pennell onward treated the result as the moment their craft became modern. The book therefore sits at two junctions at once — a seventeenth-century Castilian classic reaching English readers, and the drawings that changed how books were illustrated. With a portrait frontispiece of Quevedo. This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1892 edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.","brand":"EDITIONS RECREASOFT","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67483590754608,"sku":"9782387811677","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/pablo-de-segovia-the-spanish-sharper","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}