Historia del famoso cavallero, Don Quixote de la Mancha /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Spanish |
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En Londres :
Se hallarán el las librerias de B. White, P. Elmsley, T. y T. Payne, y J. Robson,
MDCCLXXXI [1781]
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| Edition: | [Extra-illustrated issue] |
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| Item Description: | The map of Spain is missing from the Cushing Library copy. Simiilar to the edition described in OCLC #4178283, except: It contains 15 additional engravings, including a frontispiece by Henry Thomas Aiken (1831); six large plates with Coypel's designs from set from Paris : chez Surugue, c1723 (and later); a large plate by Tremolières (unsigned and undated), two large plates after Coypel from the English set sold by G. Van der Gucht (c. 1725 and later years); two large plates from an 18th century set sold by Antoine Radigues and three large plates after Coypel engraved by Jean Daulié. See Urbina and Smith, "The grangerized copy of John Bowle's edition of Don Quixote at the Cushing Memorial Library of Texas A&M University " (cited below). (From the Iconography of Don Quixote website). Vols. 2-6 have imprint: En Salisbury : En la imprenta de Eduardo Easton. Half-title: Historia del famoso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha: por Miguel Cervantes Saavedra. Con anotaciones, indices, y varias lecciones: por el Reverendo D. Juan Bowle, A.M.S.S.A.L. en seis tomos. Pagination: volumes 1-2: [4], ii, [v]-xx, 256, [2], [257]-532, 537-544, [4] pages, [6] leaves of plates (some folded) ; volume 3-4: viii, 266, [2], [267]-572, [6] pages, [8] folded leaves of plates; volumes 5-6: [2], xxii, 157, [1], 167, [243] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates. Signatures: volumes 1-2: pi² a1 b-c⁴ A-U⁴ W⁴ X-2H⁴ chi1 2I-2U⁴ 2W⁴ 2X-3U⁴; volumes 3-4: [a]1 b⁴ (-b4) A-U⁴ W⁴ X-2I⁴ 2K⁴ (2K1+1) 2L-2U⁴ 2W⁴ 2X-3U⁴ 3W⁴ 3X-3Z⁴ 2*1 ; volumes 5-6: pi1 a⁴ b⁴ (-b4) c⁴ A-U⁴ W⁴ X-2Q⁴ 2R⁴ (-2R4), chi1 a⁴ ²A-U² W² X-2L², ³A-Z². Part 1 (volumes 1-2) and part 2 (volumes 3-4) respectively have continuous pagination and register; volume 6 is unpaged. Each volume has separate title page; titles within ornamental borders. Engraved dedication (with head-piece) to the Earl of Huntington. Engraved map has title: Mapa de España, y Africa, acomodado á la Historia de Don Quixote de la Mancha. "Siguió Bowle para la primera parte la lección de la edición de Madrid, 1608, revisándola y purgándola de sus erratas; y para la parte segunda se ajustó á la edición principe, con igual esmero en la corrección. Prudentemente se abstruvo de adoptar alguna variante de las introducidas en la edición de 1738"--Ruis y Llosellas. |
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| Physical Description: | 6 volumes in 3 : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Related Items: | Forms part of The Eduardo Urbina Cervantes Project Collection. |
| Place of Publication: | Great Britain -- England -- London. Great Britain -- England -- Salisbury. |