The history of Don-Quichote. The first parte
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The history of Don-Quichote. The first parte
Other titles: Don Quixote; Historie of Don-Quixote
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 03
Creator(s): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Additional creator(s): Shelton, Thomas (Translator); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Bookbinder); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Related people: Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Publisher: Printed [by William Stansby] for Ed: Blounte
Publication city: [London]
Date(s): [1620?]
Language: English
Size and medium: [26], 572, [4] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731299
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019912366105181
Description
Anonymous. By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Translator's dedication signed: Thomas Shelton.
The title page is engraved.
Printer's name supplied and publication date conjectured by STC.
Signatures: [par.]⁴([par.]1+1) A-2O⁸.
Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 03 copy lacks blank first leaf.
Running title reads: The historie of Don-Quixote.
Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 03 copy has Vol. I Shelton Lond. 1612 gold tooled on spine; actually 1620 second edition of first part.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.),
Indexed in: Pforzheimer,
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 03: later [nineteenth-century] red morocco, gold tooled on cover, edges, and spine, gilt fore-edges, red marbled endpapers, binding by Francis Bedford (1799-1883), engraved titles repaired.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 03: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022.
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