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The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish…by Charles Jarvis

The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish…by Charles Jarvis by CERVANTES DE SAAVEDRA, Miguel

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Title
The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish…by Charles Jarvis
Author
CERVANTES DE SAAVEDRA, Miguel
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
1742. Engraved frontis. port. of Cervantes by Virtue, several engraved head-pieces, & 67 engraved plates. xxiii, [8], [xxv]-xxxii, vi, [2], 90, [14] (first leaf a blank), 355 pp.; xii, 388 pp. Two vols. Large 4to, cont. speckled calf (joints very expertly repaired), spines gilt, brown & green morocco lettering pieces on spines. London: J. & R. Tonson & R. Dodsley, 1742. First edition of this esteemed translation and a wonderful association copy; this set belonged to Edward Gibbon and bears his bookplate in each volume. Gibbon was known for the wide range of his reading and he refers to this work in several of his letters and writings. He clearly liked this text; he owned an Ibarra edition in Spanish (1782), two editions of Smollett’s translation (1755 and 1770), and the present edition. Jarvis (1675-1739), was a portrait painter and translator. A part of the literary circle of Addison, Pope, and Swift, his stylized portraits of society ladies were very fashionable. Jarvis advised Sir Robert Walpole in forming his art collection and was appointed king’s painter in 1723. “His major literary undertaking was an English translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Published posthumously in 1742 and frequently reprinted, it is generally acknowledged as being close in spirit to the original.”–ODNB. The superb engravings are mostly signed by John Vanderbank (1694-1739), painter and draughtsman. They were first used in the 1738 quarto edition of Don Quixote issued by the Tonsons in the original Spanish. The 90 pages in Vol. I print the first English translation of Mayans & Siscar’s important Life of Cervantes. Fine and handsome set with his fine armorial bookplate in each volume. Minor rubbing and wear to extremities.
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Thread of Life. Curated by Molly Barron, Linda Harkey, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, Teri R. Abstein. Essays by Linda Harkey, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, Teri R. Abstein. by Barron, Molly; Harkey, Linda; Wylder, Viki D. Thompson; Abstein, Teri R.; Curators.

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Thread of Life. Curated by Molly Barron, Linda Harkey, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, Teri R. Abstein. Essays by Linda Harkey, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, Teri R. Abstein.
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Barron, Molly; Harkey, Linda; Wylder, Viki D. Thompson; Abstein, Teri R.; Curators.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
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Museum of Fine Arts, February 10 - March 25, 2012. Large octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illustrated wrappers), slick cardstock pages, [64] pp. Fine (As New). “Thread of Life, as the title of the exhibition suggests, focuses on textiles as art. Textile art, prior to the 1960s, was barely thinkable as a concept in the United States. Art critics and historians categorized textiles as craft. In the 1960s the concept of textiles as art received impetus from a few artists and curators. During the past fifty years the boundaries have continued shifting and the catgeory acquaired ever more praciticng adherents, often women. In the 1970s, three feminist women whose work appears in Thread of Life, intensified and effected change in the art world attitude toward textiles. The work of Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, and Judy Chicago, as well as the textile work of many who followed, are noe unambiguously recognized as art...

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