Jules Hetzel et Cie (1843 - 1914)

Ilustrée new edition with a frontispiece by Benett and engraved by Hildibrand, a label with the title, header 2, 49 in-text and 3 large prints full page in color by Neuville and Benett and a double-page map.
Cardboard to the acanthus leaf. 3 highlights of notebooks, a detached engraving, but superb condition from the carton. paper very clean, completely free of foxing. First printing in the carton.

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...

Third edition.
Bound in half grief caramel back with five nerves decorated with double coffered cold room as black sorrow, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, upper corners bumped, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Emile Erckmann who also signed for Alexandre Chatrian to his "old friend" Ludovic Bouyon.
Some small minor foxing.