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Image c1908-London-Frowde-02-001-f 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Unknown 
Engraver Unknown (reproduced by process) 
Lithographer  
Title Caption THE HISTORY OF DON QVICHOTE. The first parte. 
Title Supplied  
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter 01. Title page 
Subject 01.1 Engraved title page
 
Illustration Type Frontispiece
Title page
 
Technique Burin engraving
Process / Photomechanical technique
 
Color In color 
Volume II 
Page Number f. title page 
Image Dimension 107 x 76 
Page Dimension 151 x 95 
Commentary Don Quixote mounted on 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. 
Notes 1 - Reproduces illustrated title page from London: Blounte, 1620 edition.
2 - 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.
3 - 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).