MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha".
Four volumes. Printing Joaquín Ibarra. Madrid, 1780.
Prints by Antonio Carnicero, José del Castillo, José Brunete, Bernardo Barranco, Pedro Arnal, Gerónimo Gil and Gregorio Ferro; and engravings by Fernando Selma, Manuel Salvador y Carmona, Gerónimo A. Gil, Pedro Pasqual Males, J. Joaquín Fabregat, Joaquín Ballester, Juan de la Cruz, Francisco Muntaner and Juan Barceló.
Cover first facsimile volume, S. XX.
Original 18th century Spanish paper covers.
Good condition. Restorations.
Measurements: 30.5 x 23 x 4 cm.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, (1547-1616), author. Joaquín Ibarra y Marín (1725-1785), publisher, . This is one of the greatest literary and typographic works of our history: Ibarra's "Quixote", edited in 1780 by Joaquin Ibarra, and commissioned by His Majesty King Carlos III to the Royal Spanish Academy, following its orthographic and syntactic norms, only 1500 copies were published, and it is the best and most delicate edition ever made of the adventures of the ingenious nobleman Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho Panza. Its illustrations and other pictorial details were made by members of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and the ink, paper and even the typography. All under the supervision of the typographer Joaquín Ibarra, printer of the King's Chamber, and creator of the typeface that bears his name, the Ibarra, commissioned by the Academy, wishing to set a complete, revised, accurate and error-free edition of Cervantes' brilliant work, began work in 1777 and finished three years later. It includes thirty-one prints based on the most famous episodes of the novel, as well as a portrait of Cervantes, two frontispieces and a map showing the route followed by the knight Don Quixote.