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

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Leben und Thaten des weisen Junkers Don Quixote von la Mancha.
15 Aus der Urschrift des Cervantes, nebst der Fortsetzung des
Avellaneda. Translated into German by F. S. Bertuch.
Leipzig: Caspar Fritsch,
1780-1781.
6 volumes.
This edition includes a portrait
of Cervantes in the fi rst volume
and twenty-nine illustrations
by Daniel Chodowiecki,
engraved by D. Berger (ten
of them are found in the last
two volumes and correspond
to Avellaneda’s spurious
continuation). In addition,
every volume includes an
engraved title page.
Historia del famoso cavallero, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Edited
16 and annotated by the Reverend Juan Bowle.
Londres: B. White, et al.;
Salisbury: Imprenta de
Edvardo Easton, 1781.
6 tomes in 3 volumes.
Second issue of Bowle’s edition, with engraved
dedication page. A er more than ten years of
research and extensive readings of Spanish, Italian
and classical sources, Reverend Bowle published
the fi rst edition to include annotations, critical
notes and textual variants. This classic edition
marks the beginning of serious textual and critical
studies of Cervantes. Extra-illustrated copy with a
frontispiece by Henry Thomas Alken (1831) and 14
large plates a er the designs by Charles-Antoine
Coypel and others from the c.1723-24 French set,
engraved by Surugue and the 1725 English set,
sold by G. Van der Gucht and engraved by several
artists. Tail-pieces, ornamental rules and headpieces
can also be found throughout the three
volumes. The map of Don Quixote’s travels is
wanting in Cushing’s copy.
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