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The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha

The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha

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The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha

by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; Thomas Shelton [Translator]

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London: Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew Crooke, 1652. Second edition in English. Second English-language edition of Cervantes' classic novel Don Quixote. Also the first one-volume edition of this translation, and first folio in English. Two parts in one volume, chancery folio. [xvi], 138, [x], 138-274 pp. with each numbered page of the contents actually containing two pages. Woodcut devices on both titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials. Full contemporary English calf twice ruled in blind, rebacked with recent endpapers. Corners worn with losses, some surface wear, lacking blanks. Title-page worn and soiled at edges, small hole above title. Some spotting throughout text, darkening along edges. Final leaf has lower marginal loss at foot with small paper repair to verso, also with some marginalia to both recto and verso.

Cervantes's celebrated novel. Originally published in Madrid in 1604 and part II in 1615, the Thomas Shelton translation published in 1612 and the second part in 1620 was the first translation in any language which took him only forty days to complete. The first one-volume edition of Shelton's translation, which is generally considered the only translation that "realizes Cervantes's manner more nearly than any successor" (DNB). PMM 111 (first Spanish edition).

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Title
The History of the Valorous and Witty-Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha
Author
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; Thomas Shelton [Translator]
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Second edition in English
Publisher
Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew Crooke
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1652
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Calf
Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Folio
A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
Marginalia
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Rebacked
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Soiled
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Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Recto
The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.

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