The editorial vocation of the Don Quixote Iconographic Museum (MIQ) has been present since its foundation, in 1987, the year in which the beginnings of the International Cervantine Colloquium also germinated, a meeting of specialists that, like no other, constitutes a fundamental piece for contemporary research on the Quixote and the Cervantes. The worldwide accreditation of the Cervantine company in Guanajuato begins to consolidate with the emergence, in 2003, of the Center for Cervantine Studies. This intellectual enterprise, to which its founder Eulalio Ferrer Rodríguez gave all his efforts, soon bore literary fruits: the publication of the reports of each of the colloquiums, which to date total XXIX editions and gather more than 300 keynote speeches.

However, the museum that emerged around a literary character, Don Quixote, could only place him at the center of his bookish vocation. We know that since the appearance of the first part, in 1605, Don Quixote was a best seller, to the point of being imitated by the infamous Avellaneda. Visionarily, the MIQ began a new era of editions a few years ago with Don Quixote as its driving force.

The Guanajuato edition is none other than that of Florencio Sevilla Arroyo, professor of Medieval Literature and of the Spanish Golden Age, at the Autonomous University of Madrid, who has dedicated his life to the recovery of the prince edition of all the works of Cervantes, including previously unknown works. Thus, under this academic tutelage, the MIQ has the best edition of the Complete Works of Cervantes.