Where was the first edition of Don Quixote printed?
This was the first edition of Don Quixote printed in Barcelona, and the first occasion the two parts appeared together. However, they were by different printers, and Salvá notes how unusual it is in practice to find both parts united. Palau 51989; Salvá 1554; Suñé 17. EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA.
How big is the woodcut of Don Quixote?
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Valencia: Pedro Patricio Mey for Iusepe Ferrer, 1605. 8o (148 x 98 mm). Title with woodcut figure of Quixote in armor on horseback. (Some occasional browning, V3 with marginal tear crossing text.) Contemporary Spanish limp vellum (some soiling); green quarter morocco slipcase.
What kind of gilt does Don Quixote use?
2 volumes, 8o (184 x 134 mm). (Lacking preliminary \\Kp\\k1 blank in vol. 1 and terminal blank in vol. 2, small rusthole on Ff8 in vol. 1 catching a few letters, smaller rusthole on D8 catching page number, some occasional browning.) Modern brown morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere.
This was the first edition of Don Quixote printed in Barcelona, and the first occasion the two parts appeared together. However, they were by different printers, and Salvá notes how unusual it is in practice to find both parts united. Palau 51989; Salvá 1554; Suñé 17. EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA.
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Valencia: Pedro Patricio Mey for Iusepe Ferrer, 1605. 8o (148 x 98 mm). Title with woodcut figure of Quixote in armor on horseback. (Some occasional browning, V3 with marginal tear crossing text.) Contemporary Spanish limp vellum (some soiling); green quarter morocco slipcase.
2 volumes, 8o (184 x 134 mm). (Lacking preliminary \Kp\k1 blank in vol. 1 and terminal blank in vol. 2, small rusthole on Ff8 in vol. 1 catching a few letters, smaller rusthole on D8 catching page number, some occasional browning.) Modern brown morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere.
