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Image 1810-Paris-01-001-f 
Illustration No. 1   2  3  4    
Illustrator Claude? Lefebvre (copied after) 
Engraver Macret (possibly, Jean César Macret) 
Lithographer  
Title Caption  
Title Supplied Don Quixote reading chivalry books with Folly 
Part Part I, Madrid 1605  
Chapter Chapter 1 
Subject 1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels
1.2 Alonso Quixano (AQ) becomes the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha (DQ)
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f. title page 
Image Dimension 97 x 62 (complete illus.); 48 x 32 (vignette) 
Page Dimension 142 x 90 
Commentary Don Quixote reading chivalry books at his library; arms on the floor; the greyhound next to him.
Folly touchs don Quixote's head with her scepter and, among dark clouds, don Quixote's fantasies appear: a devil with blown bladders (like the bojiganga; 11:2), monsters, hybrid beings...
Scene conceived halfway through the 18th century allegorical frontispieces and the Romanticism imaginative illustrations.
Drawing and engraving with little quality.
Very deficient printing/preservation. 
Notes 1 - Copy with little quality after Lefebvre's illustration (Paris: Didot-Deterville, 1799); also previously copied by Bigant for Paris: Chez Gide, 1806 and Paris: H. Nicolle, 1809.
2 - Placed as frontispiece.