Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de — Thomas Shelton, trans.

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

The History of the Valorous and VVitty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha. London: Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew Crooke, 1652
Ink, paper and cow

Folio (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.; 276 x 185 mm). Title-page for both parts, woodcut initials, headpieces. Contemporary manuscript identification of the translator on the title page "By Thomas Sheldon." uniformly browned, dampstain on lower right corner of second half of the volume, not affecting the text. Contemporary calf; rebacked.

Provenance

Sir Daniel Fleming (1633–1701), of Rydal Hall, Westmorland (Autograph signature on first blank and title page). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1965

Literature

Wing C 1776

Catalogue Note

Second edition in English, translated by Thomas Shelton. When first published in 1612, Shelton's translation was the first in any language.