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Histoire de l'admirable et incomparable don Quichotte de la Manche /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616
Other Authors: Filleau de Saint-Martin, François, -approximately 1695 (Translator), Duchesne, Marie-Antoinette (Printer), Cailleau, André-Charles, 1731-1798 (Printer), Humblot, Antoine, -1758 (Illustrator), Cars, Laurent, 1699-1771, Mathey, Charles Grégoire, -1749 (Illustrator), Bonard, Olivier (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:French
Published: A Paris : Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Libraire, rue Saint-Jacques, au Temple de Goût, 1772.
Edition:Nouvelle édition, revue avec soin sur l'Original de Michel de Cervantes, & beaucoup plus correcte que les preécédentes. Avec figures.
Description
Item Description:Description based on tomes 3 and 4.
Title pages in red and black letters.
The first four tomes are the Continuation attributed, among others, to Filleau de Saint-Martin, translator of this edition.
On colophon of volume 4: De l'Imprimerie de Cailleau, rue St.-Severin.
A frontispiece designed by Humblot and engraved by Laurent Cars and 39 illustrations designed by Bonard or Bonnard (only 23 signed). It also has 19 copied after Charles-Antoine Coypel and engraved by Laurent Cars (23), Crépy le fils (4) and Mathey (4) (eight unsigned). It includes 31 illustrations in volumes I - IV about Cervantes' Don Quixote, five in volume V are about Saint-Martin's Continuation, and three in vol. VI are about Robert Challe's Continuation.(from Don Quixote Iconography Digital Archive).
Physical Description:volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm. (duodecimo)
Related Items:Forms part of The Eduardo Urbina Cervantes Project Collection.
Place of Publication:France -- París