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

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Le Luminose Geste di <strong>Don</strong> Chisciotte disegnate ei incise da<br />

25 Francesco Novelli in XXXIII tavole con spiegazioni. Translated into<br />

Italian by Bartolommeo Gamba.<br />

Venezia: Tipografi a di<br />

Alvisopoli, 1819.<br />

Only 102 copies<br />

were printed of<br />

this extremely<br />

rare edition.<br />

It includes<br />

the thirty-two<br />

etchings done by<br />

F. Novelli for the<br />

1818 edition of the<br />

novel which was<br />

also published<br />

by Alvisopoli<br />

in Venice. In<br />

this edition,<br />

each etching is<br />

accompanied with<br />

explanatory text<br />

by Bartolommeo<br />

Gamba on the previous page. <strong>Cushing</strong>’s copy is<br />

the only known library copy.<br />

The Life and Exploits of <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> de la Mancha. Translated<br />

26 from the Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra, by Charles<br />

Jarvis.<br />

London: Published by<br />

Knight and Lacey; Jones<br />

and Co. Publishers, 1824.<br />

2 volumes.<br />

This edition includes a portrait of Cervantes and<br />

twenty-four illustrations designed by Robert<br />

Cruikshank and engraved by R. Fenner and<br />

Lears. Both title pages are decorated with a small<br />

vigne e by W. O. Knight. First volume includes<br />

an abridged translation of the Vida de Cervantes<br />

by G. Mayans.<br />

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