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Cervantes, Miguel (1547-1616) The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha.
London: Printed for J. & R. Tonson, 1742.
First edition of the Jervas translation, in two large quarto volumes, illustrated with engravings by Gerard Vandergucht (1696/97-1776) after the original work of John Vanderbank (1694-1739) with sixty-nine engravings (including the sixty-eight numbered plates accompanying the story, and the unnumbered portrait); this copy with the supplement to the translator's preface (signature *b); contents very good; bound in full contemporary speckled calf, boards tooled in gilt, neatly rebacked, with older armorial bookplates in both volumes, 11 x 8 3/4 in. (2)
