print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.62
- Description
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by Charles Jarvis. With one hundred illustrations by A. B. Houghton [i.e. Arthur Boyd Houghton]. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London: Frederick Warne and Company, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1866. [London:] Dalziel Brothers, engravers and printers, Camden Press. xiii,710p.With two pages of publisher’s titles bound at the end. The frontispiece is signed: “A B Houghton” and “Dalziel”. It shows Don Quixote astride his horse, Rocinante. It is captioned: “ “/ O happy era, happy age” he continued, “when my glorious deeds shall be revealed to the/ world! Deeds worthy of being engraven on brass and sculptured in marble!” ” / Robin de Beaumont's notes regarding price and dating of this copy are written on the front endpaper verso. Robin de Beaumont has noted the following proof plates are in the Dalziel Archive: 1865, nos.899-997. He suggests that this copy is the first issue, with the word “Illustrated” blocked on the spine, and with a prize presentation label dated Christmas 1865. A paper label is pasted on the front pastedown,, with the inscription: “/ Testimonial of High Merit/ (Grade 15th)/ awarded to/ Walter Barron/ Aged 14/ Bruce Castle, Christmas/ 1865./” The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the front paste down.
Binding: Gilt edges, Bevelled boards. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Green sand-grain cloth. Apart from the central vignette on the upper cover, both covers are blocked with an identical design. This is in blind and relief on the lower cover and in gold and relief on the upper cover. On the upper cover, two fillets are blocked in gold on the borders, with a single, wider fillet between them, and this has repeating dots blocked in relief within it. Straps and squares are blocked on each corner in gold. An elaborate pattern of arabesques is blocked on the sides, the head and the tail, which forms the central frame. The central vignette is a vertical hatch gold lettering-piece, with elaborate borders, formed by two fillets. The words: “/ Don/ Quixote/ Illustrated/” blocked in relief within the vignette, each within three rectangular cartouche shaped gold lettering-pieces, each with a single fillet blocked in relief on its borders. Between and around these words, small stem and bud decoration is blocked in relief. The spine is blocked in gold and in relief. From the head downwards, the decoration is: hatch gold leaves blocked at the head; an elaborate arabesque gold lettering-piece, within which, the words: “/ Dalziel’s/ Don/ Quixote/” are blocked in relief within three rectangular gold lettering-pieces, each of which has a single fillet blocked in gold on its borders; strap work and hatch gold leaves are blocked in gold down the spine; the word: “/ Illustrated/” is blocked in gold within a rectangle formed buy a single gold fillet; at the tail, the words: “/ F. Warne & Co./” are blocked in relief within a rectangular gold lettering-piece with rounded ends, and gold fillets blocked on its borders.
- Production date
- 1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Thickness: 55 millimetres
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Width: 182 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.62
