[Literature] (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) The History of the most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And his Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha...

London: Printed by Tho(mas). Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John Newton, 1687. First illustrated edition in English. Folio. (xviii), 616, (4) (errata and poems) pp. Translated by J(ohn). P(hillips). Illustrated with eight engraved plates, each plate with two images; lacking engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full brown calf, stamped in blind and in gilt, rebacked with portions of original spine laid down, later black morocco spine label; all edges speckled red; front and rear free endpapers renewed; repairs along edges of prelims and first seven pages; bottom corner of pp. 437/438 clipped, but not affecting text; scattered minor soiling and spotting to text leaves; some leaves at rear with small dampstaining in fore-edge; contemporary ownership signature on title-page; scattered marginalia. ESTC R25756

A handsome copy of the first illustrated edition of Don Quixote in English, and the first edition of John Phillips's translation. John Phillips (1631-1706) was the nephew and godson of John Milton (1608-74), and his translation is only the second into the English language following Thomas Shelton's in 1612 (part one only) and 1620 (first complete edition).

Provenance

From the private collection of Jack Shapiro, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania