The life and actions of that ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Type of record: Book
Title: The life and actions of that ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
Other titles: Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha
Classmark: BC Lt CER
Creator(s): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Additional creator(s): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616) (Other); Woodward, Thomas (Other); Peele, John (1771) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Woodward, at the Half-Moon over against St. Dunstan's church in Fleetstreet; and John Peele, at Lock's Head in Pater-Noster-Row
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1725
Language: English
Size and medium: xxij, 2 unnumbered pages, 172 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273128
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018391579705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Both numbers end in mid-sentence: Numb.1 on p.72, Numb.2 on p.172 (beginning of Book 3).
Spanish and English title-pages vis-à-vis; dedication in Spanish and English; Preface to the reader, and text in Spanish and English, in opposite columns. Pagination continuous, but titles to Numb.2 (2ff. between K4 and L1) not included.
Contains Books I-II; p. 172 is the first page of Book III.
No more published? According to R.M.Wiles, "Serial publication in England before 1750", p.276, the copy seen by him at the Houghton Library ends at p.172.
Unnumbered leaf following p.xxij: Books printed for T. Woodward in Fleetstreet, and J. Peele in Pater-Noster-Row. 2 p.
Added t.p. title: Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero Don Quixote de la Mancha.
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