CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE | The History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and his Trusty Squire Sancho Panza, now made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language (trans. John Phillips). London: Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John Newton, 1687

Property from the Library of Joseph Vales

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE

The History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and his Trusty Squire Sancho Panza, now made English according to the Humour of our Modern Language (trans. John Phillips). London: Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John Newton, 1687

Folio (11¾ x 7⅛ in.; 300 x 182 mm). Title-page with type-ornament vignette, engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates or full-page illustrations, each with 2 images; lacking final leaf (verses & errata), frontispiece trimmed and laid down, title-page rebacked, A1, A2, and Kkkk1 silked, some mostly marginal browning and staining, some marginal tears and repairs, one plate torn into image, a few scattered rust-holes. Twentieth-century crushed brown morocco, front cover with vignette of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza stamped in russet, spine gilt, by Myron Davy (signed at foot of spine); spine a little darkened.

First illustrated edition in English.

REFERENCES:        

ESTC R25756; Wing C1774A

PROVENANCE:

Myron & Nancy Davy (C. G. Sloan sale 182, lot 2289)