Paris

First edition.
Half chocolate shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands showing some light rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph inscription from Elme-Marie Caro to (Henri) Wallon when he was Minister of Public Instruction.
Occasional light worming.

First edition. Wood engraving signed in the plate by the artist.

Plate created specifically for the illustration of Cervantes' Don Quixote for the Hachette edition of 1863.

Gustave Doré first traveled to Spain in 1855, in the company of Théophile Gautier and publisher Paul Dalloz. In 1861, responding to a commission from the journal Le Tour du monde, he returned there with Baron Jean Charles Davillier, a knowledgeable hispanophile, who would recount their journey in his Voyage en Espagne.
Doré went there primarily with a view to illustrating Don Quixote: "I am therefore going to the homeland of this illustrious hidalgo to study all the