Figure 234
Title-page of Academy Edition of Don Quixote
From a copy in the Boston Public Library (facsimile), Biblioteca Nacional de España (scan, p. 11 [CERV/5 V.1])
1780
…the 1780 “Academy Edition” was the most important—indeed, according to an authority on editions of Don Quixote, “the finest edition which Spain has produced and perhaps altogether the most estimable one we have.”
Of the “Academy Edition” in quarto, the first volume opens with a simple title-page set entirely in roman capitals, without engraved decoration.