El Ingenioso Hildalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Nueva Edicion corregida por la Reale Academia Espanola. Parte Primera, Parte Segunda
Cervantes, Miguel de
Madrid. Joaquin Ibarra. 1780
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A fine copy of Joaquin Ibarra's masterwork and a classic of world literature.
Born in Saragossa in 1725, Ibarra moved to Madrid where he began printing under his own name in 1753. A highly acclaimed printer, Ibarra developed special recipes for ink and techniques for paper handling, several of which he carried with him to the grave. The type used for this work was especially cut by Geronimo Gil and the paper was hand-made by Joseph Florens.
'Papel excelente e impresión irreprochable.' (Rius).
'What had begun as a simple satire on the tedious chivalric romances of the time broadened into a sweeping panorama of Spanish society; and it was this, the variety, the liveliness, and the gibes at the famous, which won it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdues pathos, its universal humanity, were slower to be appreciated ... Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times, and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills or Sancho Panza at the inn.' (PMM).
[PROVENANCE: Pictorial bookplate with the initials 'J B'; collection of Antenor and Beatriz Patino].
Rius 55; [see PMM 111 for the First Edition].
Born in Saragossa in 1725, Ibarra moved to Madrid where he began printing under his own name in 1753. A highly acclaimed printer, Ibarra developed special recipes for ink and techniques for paper handling, several of which he carried with him to the grave. The type used for this work was especially cut by Geronimo Gil and the paper was hand-made by Joseph Florens.
'Papel excelente e impresión irreprochable.' (Rius).
'What had begun as a simple satire on the tedious chivalric romances of the time broadened into a sweeping panorama of Spanish society; and it was this, the variety, the liveliness, and the gibes at the famous, which won it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdues pathos, its universal humanity, were slower to be appreciated ... Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times, and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills or Sancho Panza at the inn.' (PMM).
[PROVENANCE: Pictorial bookplate with the initials 'J B'; collection of Antenor and Beatriz Patino].
Rius 55; [see PMM 111 for the First Edition].
pp. xiv, ccxxiv, 199; 418; xiv, 306; (ii), 346. 4 vols. 4to. (305 x 230 mm). Illustrated with two frontispieces, two vignette titles, portrait of Cervantes, folding map with Quixote's travels marked in red and thirty-one hors-texte etched plates, as well as numerous engraved six-line initials and head- and tail-pieces. Full Spanish nineteenth-century carmine calf, boards ruled in gilt and black and foliate border tooled in blind, banded spines with gilt rules and titles in five compartments, turn-ins with gilt floral border, board edges with gilt decorative tooling, blue silk moiré endpapers, a.e.g.
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