CERVANTES, MIGUEL The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish by Charles Jarvis. London, printed for J. & R. Tonson, 1742.
Large 4to (c. 295x235 mm. binding). Engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Cervantes, 67 engraved plates (complete, some slight spotting; text with some browning).
Contemporary full calf bindings, renovated with somewhat later spines in compartments, speckled edges, binding partly worn and rubbed with split inner joints, later endpapers.
Collation: xxiv, (1 blank, 9)], xxvi-xxxii, vi, (2), 90, (14), 355; xii, 388 pp.
ESTC T59882.

The first edition of this translation by Jervas (misspelt on the title page), here with the scarce 8-page "Supplement to the Translator's Preface" inserted between pages xxiv and xxv (not found in all copies. Includes the reimpression of the Life of Cervantes, with title dated 1738. Engravings by Gerard Vander Gucht (1696/97-1776) after John Vanderbank (1694-1739). The portrait of Cervantes by G. Kent, engraved by George Vertue.