17 17CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The History Of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now made English... And Adorned with several Copper Plates. By J[ohn] P[hillips]. London, 1687. Folio (8 by 12-1/2 inches), period-style full paneled speckled calf gilt. $16,500 First illustrated edition in English of Cervantes’ “great, ironical, romantic story” (Powys 27), the first edition of Phillips’ translation, with a handsome full-page engraved frontispiece, 16 fine copper engravings (on eight plates). First published 1605-15, Don Quixote stands as “one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times, and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills or Sancho Panza at the inn” (PMM 111). John Phillips, who prepared this edition, was the nephew and godson of John Milton, with whom he lived and from whom he received his education. With engraved frontispiece and 16 copper-plate engravings on eight plates. Phillips’ rendering is the second English translation of Don Quixote; Thomas Shelton’s, published in 1612 (part I) and 1620 (part II), was the first, but it was not illustrated. With three pages of poems and errata at rear, often not present. Early owner ink signatures, including two on title page (one inked over); page 236 with marginal pen trials. Lower corner of leaf Bbb2 torn, not touching letterpress, text and plates generally clean and fine; period-style binding very attractive. “Read By All Ages At All Times”: First Illustrated Edition In English Of Don Quixote, 1687
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