The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
Subtitle: in two volumes
By: translated from the original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra by Charles Jarvis, Esq
Contributors: Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739, translator; Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739, illustrator; Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, engraver; Warburton, William, 1698-1779, writer of added commentary; Oldfield, John, writer of added commentary; Mayans y Siscar, Gregorio, 1699-1781; Ozell, John, -1743, translator; Draper, Somerset, bookseller; J. and R. Tonson; R. and J. Dodsley; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, and R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall
Published: 1756
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Other titles: Life and exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha; Don Quixote
Work titles: Don Quixote
Notes: Set contains 1 unnumbered and 68 numbered leaves of plates, numbered continuously across the volumes.

Plates engraved by G. Van der Gucht, C. du Bosc, B. Baron, and G. Vertue, after J. Van der Banck, which were first issued in the edition edited by Lord Carteret, London, 1738.

Preceding the text in vol. 1 are: "The translator's preface;" "A supplement to the translator's preface [by W. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester]" ([8] p. following p. [xxiv]); "Advertisement concerning the prints," by J. Oldfield; and "The life of Michael de Cervantes Saavedra," by Don G. Mayáns y Siscár, translated by J. Ozell.

Portrait of Cervantes engraved by G. Vertue after G. Kent.

Rare Book copy: Volumes misnumbered on spine.

Graesse, II, 108

Lowndes, I, pt. 2, 401

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

In English; translated from the original Spanish.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full sprinkled calf; upper and lower covers gilt with triple-line fillet border; repaired spine with six raised bands corresponding to the six sewing supports, gilt in compartments, with two red lettering pieces; board edges gilt with a decorative roll; marbled text edges; marbled endpapers.