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Image | c1908-London-Frowde-01-001-f |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Unknown |
Engraver | Unknown (reproduced by process) |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | THE HISTORY OF DON QVICHOTE. The first parte. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | 01. Title page |
Subject |
01.1 Engraved title page |
Illustration Type |
Frontispiece Title page |
Technique |
Burin engraving Process / Photomechanical technique |
Color | In color |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f. title page |
Image Dimension | 107 x 76 |
Page Dimension | 151 x 95 |
Commentary | Don Quixote mounted on Rocinante and Sancho on his donkey; both perfectly characterized. Don Quixote as a knight errant, with the basin on his head and a lance-pennant (as Knight of the Lions; detail taken from the second part). Sancho with a whip and his sword. In the background, a wind-mill. |
Notes | 1 - Reproduces illustrated title page from London: Blounte, 1620 edition.
2 - Copy of the title page first appearing in Paris: Jacques du Clou et Denis Moreau, 1618 (for the second part); also reproduced in Paris: Denis Moreau, 1622. 3 - The 1618 French title page did not include a pedestal with the title. Blounte first included this illustrated title page in his re-edition of the first part c. 1620 and also in some copies of the second part (1620; before the re-edition of the first part). |