Figure 235
Types used in Academy Edition of Don Quixote: Ibarra, Madrid, 1780
From a copy in the Boston Public Library (facsimile), Biblioteca Nacional de España (scan, p. 634 [CERV/6 V.2, 138])
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.”
As to type, the opening parts and text are set in a kind of modernized old style roman and italic. Where poetry occurs in the text, it is set in italic, as are the “arguments” to chapters.