The lucky idiot, or, Fools have fortune : Verified in the life of D. Pedro de Cenudo, whose follies had generally a prosperous event but when he pretended to be wise was usually unfortunate. Improv'd with variety of moral remarks, and diverting amusements / written in Spanish, by don Quevedo de Alcala. ; Now rendered into modern English by a person of quality.

Accession number

PML 8210.1

Creator

Salas Barbadillo, Alonso Jerónimo de, 1581-1635.

Published

London : Printed for H. Hitch and L. Hawes, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater noster Row; S. Crowder and Co. facing St. Magnus Church, London Bridge, 1760.

Credit line

Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.

Notes

Translation of: El necio bien afortunado.
Signatures: A-G¹².

Description

168 p. ; 16 cm.

Provenance

Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.

Binding

Beige cloth; PML8205-19 bound as a uniform set, with binder's title on spine: Minor historians.

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