THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA

Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes by Thomas Shelton.

Reprinted from the First Edition, 1612-1620.

With a new Preface by F.J. Harvey Darton.

And illustrated with two portraits, eighteen plates and facsimiles of the original engraved titles

In two volumes

First edition: vol 1 548 pages, vol 2 530 pages, frontispieces in both volumes, 18 engraved plates, top edges gilt, others uncut, cream buckram boards with gilt device of the Navarre Society on the upper covers, titled gilt with gilt decoration on the spines, a very good set.

Thomas Shelton, (flourished 1598–1629, England), first English translator of Don Quixote. His work (1612 and 1620) was based not on Cervantes’s originals (1605 and 1615) but on the Velpius edition first published in Brussels in 1607.

Don Quixote, Spanish in full, Part 1 El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (“The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha”) and Part 2 Segunda parte del ingenioso caballero don Quijote de la Mancha (“Second Part of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha”), novel published in two parts (part 1, 1605, and part 2, 1615) by Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, one of the most widely read classics of Western literature.

Originally conceived as a parody of the chivalric romances that had long been in literary vogue, it describes realistically what befalls an aging knight who, his head bemused by reading such romances, sets out on his old horse Rocinante, with his pragmatic squire, Sancho Panza, to seek adventure. Widely and immediately translated (first English translation 1612), the novel was a great and continuing success and is considered a prototype of the modern novel.
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