Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche, traduite de l'Espagnol de Michel de Cervantes. Nouvelle edition. Revûë, corrigée et augmentée. ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1722
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3060352
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v. : ill. ; 12mo. Running number: 7505 (vol. 1 ex 6496). Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 6. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Pencil note in vol. 1 in hand of Cecil Clarabut, the Trust's first Libraries Advisor: "(found in Roof) to join rest of set. Put in 42.b. 1966". Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spines, with gilt title label 'Don Quicho' and vol. number. Textblock edges coloured red. French curl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), author François Filleau de Saint-Martin (d.1695) , editor possibly Robert Challes (1659-c.1720), author