Les Principales Aventures De L'Admirable Don Quichotte, Representees En Figures Par Coypel, Picart Le Romain, Et Autres Habiles Maitres: Avec Les Explications Des XXXI Planches

La Haie: Pierre De Hondt, 1746. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf, red edges. Very good. Folio, 34.6 x 24.7 cm. x4, A-Z4, Aa-Ss4, Tt2. Title page printed in red and black with an engraved vignette, and title-page and all text pages within a typographical border, and with woodcut initials and head and tail pieces. The 31 plates after Coypel, Boucher, Cochin, Le Bas and Tremoliere. Twenty five of the engraved plates are after the masterful series by Coypel. RAY, FRENCH BOOKS. p.13. "Coypal painted scenes from Don Quiote between 1715 and 1720. The reduction of these designs appearing in 1746 assured their wide circulation. It is not too much to (truncated) say that the pictorial tradition associated with Cervantes' masterpiece owes much to Coypal as to any other artist." This and the Dutch edition appeared the same year by the same publisher. Text in French. Interior contents fresh, bright and clean. Bookplates of Kenneth Rapoport and Vitai Lampada pastedown front cover. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesques and gilt corner motifs, red leather spine label in gilt. ASHBEE 43. COHEN-DE RICCI. 216. (Inventory #: 24328)