Vida Y Hechos Del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha: Con Muy Bellas Estampas Gravadas Sobre Los Dibujos de Coypel, Primer Pinto de el Rey de Francia.
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
$7,200 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
En Haia [The Hague]: Por P. Gosse y A. Moetjens, 1744. Rare early printing and one of the most highly coveted editions of Cervantes' masterpiece. Octavo, 4 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, burgundy spine labels, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red, ribbons bound in, frontispiece portrait. Illustrated with 24 full-page engravings after the drawings of Antoine Coypel, renowned for the paintings he produced for King Louis XIV of France including those decorating the ceiling of the Royal chapel at Versailles. In very good condition with splitting to the hinges. From the collection of Ken Rapoport with his ownership plates to the front pastedowns of each volume. Don Quixote tells the tale of a man so entranced by reading about the chivalrous romantic ideals touted in books that he decides to take up his sword and become a knight-errant himself, with the aims of defending the helpless and warding off the wicked. With his somewhat confused laborer-turned-squire, Sancho Panza, they roam the world together and have adventures that have haunted reader s imaginations for nearly four hundred years. Don Quixote is generally recognized as the first modern novel. Over those years, it has had an incredible influence on thousands of writers, from Dickens to Faulkner, who once said he reread it once a year, just as some people read
- Publisher: Por P. Gosse y A. Moetjens
- Year: 1744
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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