Cervantes | Don Quixote, Madrid, Ibarra, 1780, 4 volumes, navy morocco gilt by Bozérian

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1780

4 volumes, 4to (304 x 224mm.), 4 engraved frontispieces, engraved initials, head- and tailpieces, engraved portrait of the author, folding engraved map, 31 engraved plates, navy straight-grained morocco gilt by Bozérian, spines gilt in compartments, gilt edges, a few small stains, small hole in first few leaves of volume 4, small ink stain on foredge of volume 4, bindings repaired with some loss to covers (in particular vols 3-4)

A fine and large copy of this Spanish typographical masterpiece, retaining some deckle edges. The tools on this binding are illustrated in P. Culot, Jean-Claude Bozérian, no.28 (a copy of Paul et Virginie from 1806).

LITERATURE:

Palau 52024; Cohen-De Ricci 218-19 ("Magnifique édition comme typographie et comme ornamentation")

PROVENANCE:

Livraria Académica J. Guerdes da Silva, Porto, bookseller's label in volume 1; Do Monsenhor Ferreira, printed booklabels in volumes 2-4