Paris

Chez Pierre Lamy, Paris 1660, in-4 (15.5 x 25.5 cm), (16) 55pp(1ffx tit.) (6) 57-119pp(1 fbl.) (8) 121-184pp(4) 185-230pp(8) 231-288pp., bound

First edition, published under initials and illustrated with 66 wood engraved plates (first book: 7, second book: 17, third book: 16, forth book: 10 and the last book: 16), including several folding or double page. Title page in red and black. A contemporary tail piece glued to the verso of the title page.

Contemporary binding in full blond calf. Spine in five compartments adorned with richly decorated panels, as well as a red morocco title piece and a small library label at the bottom. Double gilt fillet on the leading edges...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Work illustrated with numerous illustrations by Jean Veber.
Spine lightly faded, illustrated first cover restored and reinforced, corner lacks to boards.

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...