Accession number
PML 2149
Creator
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Published
London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1756.
Notes
Dedicated to John, Lord Carteret, with his coat-of-arms.
Plates engraved by G. Van der Gucht, C. du Bosc, B. Baron, and G. Baron, after J. Van der Banck, which were first issued in the edition edited by Lord Carteret, London, 1738.
Portrait of Cervantes engraved by G. Vertue after G. Kent.
Preceding the text in vol. 1 are: "The translator's preface;" "A supplement to the translator's preface by a learned writer [i.e.: W. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester]" ([8] p. following p. [xxiv]); "Advertisement concerning the prints," by J. Oldfield (p. xxv-xxxii); and "The life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra," by Don G. Mayáns y Siscár, translated by J. Ozell, p. 1-90.
The plates are the same as appeared in the first ed., 1742.
Two portraits of Cervantes (in vol. 1) engraved by George Vertue (1684-1756).
Plates engraved by G. Van der Gucht, C. du Bosc, B. Baron, and G. Baron, after J. Van der Banck, which were first issued in the edition edited by Lord Carteret, London, 1738.
Portrait of Cervantes engraved by G. Vertue after G. Kent.
Preceding the text in vol. 1 are: "The translator's preface;" "A supplement to the translator's preface by a learned writer [i.e.: W. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester]" ([8] p. following p. [xxiv]); "Advertisement concerning the prints," by J. Oldfield (p. xxv-xxxii); and "The life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra," by Don G. Mayáns y Siscár, translated by J. Ozell, p. 1-90.
The plates are the same as appeared in the first ed., 1742.
Two portraits of Cervantes (in vol. 1) engraved by George Vertue (1684-1756).
Description
2 v. : 68 plates (incl. front.) port. ; 29 cm
Provenance
With the armorial ex libri of George Gostling and James Toovey.
Binding
Russia, gilt.
Classification
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