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Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote, 1780. Peter Harrington Rare Books.

Presented by Pom Harrington, owner of Peter Harrington Rare Books. First printing of the celebrated Ibarra edition. Printed for La Real Academia Española (the Spanish Royal Academy) by Joaquín Ibarra y Marín, this edition was intended to be a supreme example of Spanish craftsmanship lavished on the nation's greatest literary work. This edition excels in beauty of type, design, paper, illustration and printing, as well as incorporating a carefully edited and corrected text. The illustrations and delightful ornaments were designed by the best Spanish artists of the day, the paper was milled expressly for this edition, and the type was specially cut. It contains the first map depicting the route taken by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza through Spain.The edition's fame among bibliophiles was thoroughly established throughout Europe within a very few years, the English bibliomane William Davis wrote in 1821 that "the celebrated Ibarra edition is so well known, that I need only refer to M. Paris's sale, 1791, where a copy sold for £16, 16 shillings, and Col. Stanley's, where a copy sold for £17, 6 shillings, 6 pence" (A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac). Ours is a lovely set in a very elegant period binding, most probably English and resembling the more restrained style of the celebrated Kalthoeber workshop.Provenance: from the library of William Williams of Tregullow (1791-1870), High Sheriff of Cornwall, with his simple armorial bookplates; elaborate armorial bookplates of Etta Mary Arnold Clark (1861-1952). View on our website: http://www.peterharrington.co.uk/el-i...