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	Image	1620-London-Blount-Addenda-01-001-t
	Illustration No.	1
	Illustrator	Unknown
	Engraver	Unknown
	Lithographer
	Title Caption	THE HISTORY OF DON QVICHOTE. The first parte
	Title Supplied
	Part	Part I, Madrid 1605
	Chapter	01. Title page
	Subject
	Illustration Type	Title page
	Technique	Burin engraving
	Color	Black and white
	Volume	I
	Page Number	Prev. p. 1
	Image Dimension	162 x 114
	Page Dimension	184 x 136
	Commentary	Don Quixote mounted upon Rocinante and Sancho on his donkey; both perfectly characterized. Don Quixote as a knight errant, with the basin on his head and a lance-pennant (as Knight of the Lions; detail taken from the second part). Sancho with a whip and his sword. In the background, a wind-mill. Don Quixote's iconography is already clearly and well-established. A pedestal with the title has been included in such a way that the whole representation seems an equestrian classical sculpture. The engraving is of better quality than in the French title page.
	Notes	1 - Copy of the title page first appearing in Paris: Jacques du Clou et Denis Moreau, 1618 (for the second part); also reproduced in Paris: Denis Moreau, 1622. 2 - The 1618 French title page did not include a pedestal with the title. Blounte first included this illustrated title page in his re-edition of the first part c. 1620 and also in some copies of the second part (1620; before the re-edition of the first part). As a result, some copies of the second part have two title pages: the illustrated one and the original one not illustrated). The volumes with both parts printed together can include two illustrated frontispieces (one for each part) and others, as in Cushing's copy, just one. The title page (with the right lower corner torn) has been cut and pasted on the page. 3 - "Este Don Quijote, más que un contemporáneo de Cervantes, parece serlo de Shakespeare. Y la cabeza de Sancho recuerda vagamente la de otro inglés famoso, el rey Enrique VIII. De suerte que, al presentarse por primera vez, gráficamente, en la escena del mundo, el caballero y su escudero habían sufrido ya una curiosa transfiguración" (GG96).