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Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha.
London: Printed by Tho. Hodgkin and to be sold by John Newton, 1687.
First illustrated edition in English, folio, illustrated with full-page engraved frontispiece and eight full-page plates each with two images; translation by John Phillips (Milton's nephew); nicely bound in full brown morocco for George Rutland of Newcastle on Tyne, with fine gilt decoration to boards and spine, aeg.; extensive marginalia throughout, sometimes cropped; pages 247/248 and 249/250 with margins clipped at a diagonal to the page edge along all three edges; several leaves with corners torn away; several vertical tears (some repaired), last three leaves with large repaired tears; water staining; ex libris R. Spence Watson (1837-), with his bookplate; 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 in.
