CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by Charles Jarvis, London: J. & R. Tonson and R. Dodsley, 1742, 2 volumes, 4°, engraved portrait of Cervantes by George Virtue, 68 numbered engraved plates, most by Gerard Vander Gucht after Vanderbank, typographical ornaments (occasional light browning and dampstaining), contemporary speckled calf (extremities lightly rubbed), armorial bookplate of Edward Gibbon. [Lowndes II, 401: "An elegant edition"] (2)

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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated by Charles Jarvis, London: J. & R. Tonson and R. Dodsley, 1742, 2 volumes, 4°, engraved portrait of Cervantes by George Virtue, 68 numbered engraved plates, most by Gerard Vander Gucht after Vanderbank, typographical ornaments (occasional light browning and dampstaining), contemporary speckled calf (extremities lightly rubbed), armorial bookplate of Edward Gibbon. [Lowndes II, 401: "An elegant edition"] (2)

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