Vida y hechos del ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha
By: compuesta por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; en quatro tomos
Contributors: Mayans y Siscar, Gregorio, 1699-1781; Oldfield, John; Pineda, Pedro; Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776; Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739; Vertue, George, 1684-1756; Du Bosc, Claude, 1682-1745?; Baron, Bernard, 1696-1762; Walther, H.
Publisher: Por J. y R. Tonson
Published: 1738
Place of publication: En Londres
Language: spa
Work titles: Don Quixote
Notes: "Vida de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, autor Don Gregorio Mayáns i Siscár" (103 p. at beginning of v. 1) has special t.p., dated 1737, bound following general t.p. Edited by P. Pineda. - Brit. Mus. cat.

"Advertencias de D. Juan Oldfield ... sobre las estampas desta historia": v. 1, p. i-viii of prelim. pages.

Plates engraved mainly by Gerard Van der Gucht, with some by George Vertue, B. Baron, and Claude du Bosc after designs by Jno. Vanderbank.

Rare Book copy: Green morocco binding signed by H. Walther, gilt decorations.

Rare Book copy: From the library of John Hopkins, with his armorial bookplate.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Sarah M. Hopkins, with her manuscript note, "... left her by her father's will, July 1877."

Rare Book copy: Label of bookseller G. A. Poynder, Reading.