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Plate I of Gustave Doré's illustrations to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. From Chapter I.

The ordering of images in this edition is a little complex: There are numerous additional illustrations besides the numbered plates:

This is the order of images up to the end of Chapter 1. For convenience, I shall provide my own overall numbering, to allow some semblance of order.

1. Image:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Plate 1 "A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination".jpg

2. Image:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - 1st supplemental image for the Preface - Miguel de Cervantes swoops in on unsuspecting literature.jpg

3. Image:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - 2nd supplemental image for the Preface - Miguel de Cervantes with mask of Don Quixote.jpg

4. Image:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - 1st supplemental image for Chapter 1 - Alternative version of Plate I.jpg

5. Image:Gustave Doré - Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - 2nd supplemental image for Chapter 1 - Don Quixote repairs and polishes his grandfather's armour, Rozinate in the background.jpg

Date

Originally published 1863; This edition 1906

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The History of Don Quixote, by Cervantes. The Text edited by J. W. Clark, M.A. (Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge) and a Biographical Notice of Cervantes by T. Teignmouth Shore, M.A. Illustrated by Gustave Doré. In Two Parts. Part I. Cassell & Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne. All Rights Reserved. MCMVI

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Gustave Doré (1832–1883)
Héliodore-Joseph Pisan (assistant, 1822-1890)

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