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	Image	1808b-Paris-Nicolle-01-001-f
	Illustration No.	1   2  3  4
	Illustrator	Claude? Lefebvre (copied after)
	Engraver	Jean-Baptiste Bigant
	Lithographer
	Title Caption
	Title Supplied	Don Quixote reading chivalry books with Folly
	Part	Part I, Madrid 1605
	Chapter	Chapter 1
	Subject	1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels 1.2 Alonso Quixano (AQ) becomes the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (DQ)
	Illustration Type	Chapter illustration Frontispiece Vignette
	Technique	Burin engraving
	Color	Black and white
	Volume	I
	Page Number	f. title page
	Image Dimension	100 x 63 (complete illus.); 50 x 30 (vignette)
	Page Dimension	142 x 90
	Commentary	Don Quixote reading chivalry books at his library; arms on the floor; the greyhound next to him. Folly touches don Quixote's head with her scepter and, among dark clouds, don Quixote's fantasies appear: a devil with blown bladders (like the bojiganga; 11:2), monsters, hybrid beings... Scene conceived halfway through the 18th century allegorical frontispieces and the Romanticism imaginative illustrations. Drawing and engraving acceptable quality.
	Notes	1 - Same plate first engraved by Bigant for Paris: Chez Gide, 1806. 2 - Copied after Lefebvre's illustration (Paris: Didot-Deterville, 1799). 3 - Placed as frontispiece.