Les principales aventures de l'admirable Don Quichotte, représentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maîtres; avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection [...].

Folio: viii-356 pp.; 31 pl. (sm. hole on f. 2H4 without loss, occ. and mainly marginal sm. stains or spotting, last pl. on a leaf of smaller size and sl. browned).

Mod. 18th-c. style marbled calf, gilt fillet and roll border on the boards, gilt and decorated spine with raised bands, marbled edges. In bordered slip case. Very nice copy with large margins.

Deluxe folio edition (a 4to ed. was also published the same year at the same address) with the same copper-engravings as in the ed. of 1746 published in The Hague: 31 nice plates by J. van der Schley, Picart, Fokke and Tanjé after Coypel, Cochin fils, Trémolières, Boucher and Lebas, with captions and numb. with Roman numerals. Title in red and black, text within a frame, copper-engr. title-vignette and armorial headpiece, wood-engr. initials and tailpieces. The compositions of Coypel conceived as paintings in the years 1715-1720 were used in several 18th-c. editions.
Ref. Cohen 218. - De Theux 649. - Mouriau de Meulenacker, P. - "Les éditions liégeoises de "Don Quichotte" de 1750 à 1795", Le livre & l'estampe, 2006, n° 165, pp. 95-131 (see pp. 98 sq.). - Portalis I:131 sq.