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

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The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha.
32 Translated from the Spanish by P. A. Motteux. Illustrations
designed and etched by Adolphe Lalauze.
Edinburgh: William
Paterson, 1879-1884.
4 volumes.
Limited edition, beautifully printed on quality
paper and bound in full brown leather with
raised bands and gilt edges. It includes fortyone
etchings by Adolphe Lalauze, four of
them placed as frontispieces. The fi rst volume
frontispiece is a portrait of Cervantes. Cushing’s
copy has the bookplate of Willard Mossman.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha compuesto por
33 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Barcelona: Montaner y
Simón, 1880-1883.
2 volumes.
This large folio edition is elegantly printed on
excellent paper. It includes 297 illustrations:
forty-six of them are color lithographs designed
by R. Balaca and L. Pellicer
(except for the frontispiece
and a color portrait of
Cervantes both executed
by B. Maura) and engraved
by Smeeton-Tilly, Sadurni,
F. Gómez, Branguli, Martín
and Artigas. The other 251
illustrations are black and
white head-pieces and tailpieces.
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