The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentlemen Don Quijote de La Mancha.
1742. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1742.
2 vols, 4to; Vol 1: 2 blanks, frontis, [i-iii], iv-xxxii, portrait frontis, [i-iii], iv-vi, 355, 2 blanks pp. Vol 2: 2 blanks, [i-iii], iv-xii, title page, 388, 2 blanks pp. 68 full-page copperplate engravings by Van der Gucht after Vanderbank, plus a portrait of Cervantes as a frontis to the Life of Michael Cervantes de Saavedra. Full calf, rebacked, decorated in gilt. Armorial bookplate to verso of the front flyleaf in vol. 1, in front pastedown in vol 2. Ribbon bookmarks.
§ The first Jarvis translated edition. With the Myan’s and Siscar’s Life of Cervantes, translated by Odell, imprint 1738. Without the “supplement to the translator’s preface” by William Warburton found in some copies of this edition (Lowndes, p. 401). Item #106884
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