The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha : Translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1742
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3207516.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates : ill. ; 4to. Contains the supplement to the translator's preface in vol. 1. Provenance: Eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate: "Sr. Henry Harpur Bart" [i.e. Sir Henry Harpur, 5th Baronet, (1708-1748)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet forming a border, blind-tooled board edges. Sewn on four raised cords (with two additional false raised bands), gilt tooling on spine, vol. number direct in gilt on spine. Spine labels (wanting). Text-block edges densely mottled red.
Makers and roles
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), author Charles Jarvis Gregorio Mayns y Siscŕ (1699-1781) William Warburton (1698 - 1779)