Cervantes, Les principales avantures de Don Quichotte, The Hague, 1746

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Les principales avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maitres. The Hague: Pierre de Hondt, 1746

large 4to (331 x 232mm.), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpiece, woodcut initials and tailpieces, 31 engraved plates, nineteenth-century calf, later marbled slipcase

A fine and tall copy of Coypel's illustrations to Don Quixote, in an early state of the plates, without the plate number below the caption. The paper size here is larger than the standard quarto edition (usually around 270mm. tall), but taller copies of around 330mm. have been recorded.

The accompanying text does not contain the full novel, but just the text for the principal scenes which are depicted in the plates.

PROVENANCE

Comte Revedin, bookplate

LITERATURE

Cohen-De Ricci 216 ("superbes illustrations")