Accession number
PML 27731
Creator
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Published
London : Printed by William Stansby, for Ed. Blount and W. Barret, 1612.
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Translation of: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Primera parte.
Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Shelton.
Other errors in pagination that occur in all copies: 46-47 misprinted 64-65; 78-79, 77-78; 269, 273; 412, 413; 413, 412; 426, 446; 452-453, 468-469; 579, 597.
For a partial account of variants among copies, see Knowles, Edwin B., Jr., "Some textual peculiarities of the first English Don Quixote", PBSA 37 (1943), p. 203-214.
First ed. of the first English translation by Thomas Shelton.
T.p. inset, and outer right edge line as well as W. Barret. 1612 of imprint in facsimile.
Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Shelton.
Other errors in pagination that occur in all copies: 46-47 misprinted 64-65; 78-79, 77-78; 269, 273; 412, 413; 413, 412; 426, 446; 452-453, 468-469; 579, 597.
For a partial account of variants among copies, see Knowles, Edwin B., Jr., "Some textual peculiarities of the first English Don Quixote", PBSA 37 (1943), p. 203-214.
First ed. of the first English translation by Thomas Shelton.
T.p. inset, and outer right edge line as well as W. Barret. 1612 of imprint in facsimile.
Description
[24], 336, 335-430, 451-594 [=576] p. ; 19 cm
Binding
Brown morocco; in 1/2 brown morocco box.
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