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Don Quichotte de la Manche, traduit de l'espagnol de Michel de Cervantes par Florian; ouvrage posthume.

Illustrated by: L. J. Lefebvre (French, active end of 18th–beginning of 19th century)
Illustrated by: Jean-Jacques François Le Barbier (French, 1738–1826)
Engraved by: Jacques-Joseph Coiny (French, 1761–1809)
Engraved by: Jean Dambrun (French, 1741–about 1808)
Engraved by: Charles Étienne Gaucher (French, 1741–1804)
Engraved by: François Godefroy (French, 1743–1819)
Engraved by: Louis Michel Halbou (French, 1730–1809)
Engraved by: Louis Joseph Masquelier (French, 1741–1811)
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spanish, 1547–1616)
Translator: Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (French, 1755–1794)
Publisher: Jean-François Pierre Deterville (French, 1766–1842)
Printer: Pierre Didot (French, 1761–1853)
1799
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 24 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each vol.): 20.6 x 13.4 x 3.3 cm (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1433a-c
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: P. Didot l'aîné, for Deterville, 1799

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 220, 397, and suppl. 1089
Description(Paris: P. Didot l'aîné, for Deterville, 1799) Octavo, three vols.; [v. 1] 194 leaves, plus 8 plates; [v. 2] 209 ll., plus 8 pls.; [v. 3] 211 ll., plus 8 pls.; contemporary gilt-stamped marbled red-brown calf.

Literary illustrations.
ProvenanceWilliam La [Touche?--collector's stamp]; William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.