Don Quixote - Original Illustrated Edition - Liège 1776 - Rare - 31 Engravings

Cervantes The principal adventures of the admirable Don Quixote, representations and figures of Coypel, Picart Le Romain, and other skilled masters; with explanations of the plans XXXI of this magnificent collection. With an engraved title vignette, an engraved and allegorical copperplate, numerous initials engraved on wood and 31 full-page copperplates. In Liège at JF Bassompierre, Printer of His Highness 1776 356 pages Damaged period binding First edition in this form A very beautiful book of illustrations from the 18th century. It is this series of legendary plates that determined the iconography of the work for about a century. Charles Coypel captured with great finesse the physical characteristics of the characters and the grotesque situations of Cervantes' masterpiece.