Don Quixote - Past Cushing Exhibits - Texas A&M University
Don Quixote - Past Cushing Exhibits - Texas A&M University
Don Quixote - Past Cushing Exhibits - Texas A&M University
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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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