OR QUIXOTE BECOMES QUIJOTE CERVANTES. EL INGENIOSO... Lot 14

OR QUIXOTE BECOMES QUIJOTE CERVANTES. EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO D. QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1819. Five volumes in five volumes in-8 (175 pp, xxiv pp, 359 pp, 6 plates h. -t. // 2 ff, 410 pp, 4 plates // xxii, 406 pp, 6 plates // vi, 403 pp, 4 plates // 643 pp, portrait and 4 facsimiles), burgundy half-calf, ornate smooth spines (19th-century bindings signed Marazuela, Madrid), the fifth volume in pastiche binding. A fine copy. Fourth edition of the "Real Academia Española", which is not simply a reprint of the previous editions (1780, 1782, 1787), but differs from them in the correction of the text (based on the 1608 and 1615 editions), the notes and Navarete's life of Cervantes, the best biography of the 19th century. This edition adopts the "J", replacing the "X'" in the Spanish spelling of Don Quixote. From now on, Don Quijote is written as Don Quixote. It is illustrated with a portrait of the author (by B. Ametller), a facsimile of an autograph, three genealogical tables, and twenty plates drawn by Jose Ribelles and copper-engraved by Lopez Enguidano for the first ten and by Alejandro Blanco for the others. Palau, 52045: los libreros inteligentes cuando ofrecen un "Buen Quijote" recomiendan el descrito. Some errors as to the number of plates for volume V. Rius, 73: El papel es bueno, los tipos hermosos y la impresión esmeradisima. Henrich, 74: Cuarta edición de la Academia, en la que se adopta la "J" substituyendo la "X". El Quijote, Biografía de un Libro, no. 132, mentions Palau, a map that seems to be missing.