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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra Impresor, 1780 4 volumes, 4to (291 x 221 mm), large paper copy, 4 engraved title pages, portrait of Cervantes, engraved ornamental initials and head- and tailpieces, 31 plates after Carnicero, Barranco, Brunette, Del Castillo, Ferro and Gil, engraved by Ballester, Barcelon, Fabregat, Gil, Mol, Muntaner, Salvador y Carmona and Selam, folding engraved map, mottled black sheepskin, spines gilt with raised bands in 6 compartments, second and third lettered in gilt, the others with gilt-tooled floral motifs, edges gilt, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, repairs to spines of volumes 1, 3 and 4, some repairs to boards, spotting (heavier in volume I) FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB PRINTING OF CERVANTES' MASTERPIECE BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MADRID, CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE GREAT MONUMENTS OF SPANISH TYPOGRAPHY. LITERATURE: Palau 52024; Cohen-De Ricci 218-19 ("Magnifique édition comme typographie et comme ornamentation")

View 1 of Lot 28: Miguel De Cervantes I Don Quixote, Madrid, 1780, 4 volumes, one of the great monuments of Spanish typography

miguel de cervantes i don quixote, madrid, 1780, 4 volumes, one of the great monuments of spanish typography

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The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha

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Don Quixote

The earliest state of the Smirke Plates for Quixote.<ul><li>Robert Smirke (English).</li><li>After text by Miquel de Cervantes.</li><li>Engravings, Illustrative of Don Quixote, from pictures by Robert Smirke.</li><li>London: Cadell and Davies, 1817.</li><li>Folio album.</li><li>Two leaves (title, plus table of plates), plus 74 plates (26 vignettes and 48 illustrations) after drawings by Robert Smirke, engraved by E. Engleheart, R. Goldiing, A. Raimbach, J. Scott, C. Warren, J. Mitan, Finden, C. Armstrong, et. al.</li><li>Signed and dated in the print, mounted to folio sheets (one plate, number 11, is duplicated).&nbsp;</li><li>Proofs on India paper.</li><li>Bound in later brown half morocco and marbled boards.</li></ul> Robert Smirke was an English painter and illustrator who specialized in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. His work was often in monochrome and was frequently adapted for engraving. He became a full member of the Royal Academy with his paintings on Don Quixote and Sancho in 1793, though the plates were issued as engravings in a four-volume quarto edition of 1818 by Cadell and Fields.Smirke also did pictures related to Shakespeare and for Bowyer's History of England. Some of his work is currently in the Guildhall Art Gallery. The 1818 edition of Don Quixote that these proofs were made for was translated by Mary Smirke, Robert's daughter.

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