490 - Cervantes Saavedra, M.de. The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quichotte of the Manor. 4 text volumes and 4 plate volumes, 8 vols. in total. Paris, Les Heures Claires, 1957-60. With 92 color woodcuts in the text by Henry Lemarié, as well as 3 suites of illustrations each, totaling approximately 440 plates. 4to. Loose sheets and plates in embossed original covers, in original cardboard boards with decorative gilt spines, and a matching original cardboard slipcase in red and chamois.

Cervantes Saavedra, M.de. The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quichotte of the Manor. 4 text volumes and 4 plate volumes, 8 vols. in total. Paris, Les Heures Claires, 1957-60. With 92 color woodcuts in the text by Henry Lemarié, as well as 3 suites of illustrations each, totaling approximately 440 plates. 4to. Loose sheets and plates in embossed original covers, in original cardboard boards with decorative gilt spines, and a matching original cardboard slipcase in red and chamois. One of 89 copies (GA 2900) on Vélin de Rives paper with three additional suites of illustrations each in color and in black and white with remarques, as well as the decomposition of one illustration on 63 plates ('la décomposition des couleurs de l'une de ces illustrations').- For the entire work, 3500 woodcuts were necessary to produce the 92 text illustrations; these were cut by R. Jacquet, D. Darr, and J. Taricco at the Jacquet studio in Paris.- Henry Lemarié, with his humorous historical miniatures, is among the most popular illustrators in France.