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Vida y hechos del ingenioso hidalgo <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> de la Mancha.<br />

Compuesta por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.<br />

London: J. and R.<br />

Tonson, 1738.<br />

4 volumes.<br />

First deluxe edition ever printed, fi rst edition in<br />

Spanish published in England, also fi rst edition<br />

with the fi rst biography of Cervantes wri en by<br />

Gregorio Mayans y Siscar. Known as the Lord<br />

Carteret’s edition and prompted, perhaps, by the<br />

interest of Queen Caroline, wife of King George<br />

II, it includes an allegorical frontispiece, sixtyseven<br />

copperplate engravings by John Vanderbank<br />

and one by William Hogarth, engraved by G.<br />

Van der Gutch, B. Baron and Claude du Bosc. It<br />

also includes a portrait of Cervantes by G. Kent<br />

engraved by G. Vertue.<br />

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