![]() ![]() He worked with the best painters and engravers of his time and, based on a secret formula he developed, the Ibarra ink gained a reputation for its exceptional quality and brilliance. ![]() In his printed work, Ibarra sought to achieve a perfect flow of harmonious type, inks, illustration, margins, and textures. Spanish printer JoaquÃn Ibarra made several important technical developments in press printing, book-making, typography and paper-making. Bound in full contemporary Spanish tree calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red and black morocco spine labels, elaborate double gilt-ruled borders, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece to each volume and 31 engraved plates throughout, 2-page folding engraved map of DonÂQuixote's travels to the rear of volume 1. The deluxe illustrated Ibarra edition of Cervantes' masterpiece "which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English" (Bloom). ![]()
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