CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE | The History of the Valorous and VVitty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended (trans. Thomas Shelton). London: Printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew Crooke, 1652

Property from the Library of Joseph Vales

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE

The History of the Valorous and VVitty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish; now newly Corrected and Amended (trans. Thomas Shelton). London: Printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne, for Andrew Crooke, 1652

Folio (11 x 7½ in.; 282 x 189 mm). Two woodcut printer's devices on title-page (not in McKerrow), separate title-page for second part, also with two woodcut devices, on 2M2r, woodcut initials and headpieces; lightly browned, a bit of offsetting to title from contemporary identification of the author on facing free endpaper. Contemporary calf, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges; rebacked, extremities rubbed, corners rather worn.

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

REFERENCES:        

ESTC R3484; Wing C1776

PROVENANCE:

T. Willughby (contemporary signature at head of title-page with press-mark F:1:15) — Myron & Nancy Davy (bookplate; C. G. Sloan sale 812, lot 2288)