Histoire de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche

Edition of the translation by François Filleau de Saint-Martin, illustrated with 31 copperplate engravings by Folkema and Fokke after Antoine Coypel, as well as a portrait of the author as frontispiece engraved by Folkema after G. Kent at the head of the first volume. Title pages in black and red accompanied by engraved vignettes for each volume preceded by a half-title page on each. First volume complete with an engraved half-title. Numerous tailpieces.
Pastiche Bradel bindings in full fuchsia pink paper boards, smooth brown spines decorated with small gilt tools and fillets, gilt date at foot of spines, covers decorated with double gilt fillet border, original red paper board waiting covers preserved and bound at head and tail of each volume, pastedowns and endpapers of watermarked Arches laid paper, uncut pages. Headcaps rubbed with occasional small paper losses, scattered foxing, small marginal tear repaired, not affecting text (p. 15, vol. I and p. 191 vol. VI), corner loss filled (p. 321, vol. III), pale dampstain (p. 253, vol. VI), more pronounced foxing (p. 309 vol. VI).
Handsome copy with entirely uncut margins of this famous illustrated edition of Cervantes' masterpiece.
The superb full-page copperplate engravings are a reduction to octavo format of the engravings from the 1746 edition, executed after drawings by the great painter Charles Coypel, as well as the artists François Boucher, Cochin, Lebas, Pacard and Tremolières.