‘Rounded with a sleep’: an exhibition commemorating 400 years since the passing of Shakespeare and Cervantes

DCRB, in collaboration with Librería Bardón (Madrid) and Stéphane Clavreuil Rare Books (London), brings together maps of Elizabethan England such as a 1583 wall map of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton, with rare works by the two authors, including a first edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and a copy of Cervantes’s Don Quixote illustrated by Dalí.

The date of the authors’ passing — 23 April 1616 — inspired the establishing of World Book and Copyright Day by the UNESCO.