The second part of the history of the valorous and witty knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mançha. VVritten in Spanish by Michael Ceruantes: and now translated into English
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Type of record: Book
Title: The second part of the history of the valorous and witty knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mançha. VVritten in Spanish by Michael Ceruantes: and now translated into English
Other titles: Don Quixote; History of Don-Quichote. The second parte; Second part of Don Quixote
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 04
Creator(s): Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616)
Additional creator(s): Digges, Leonard (1588-1635) (Attributed name); Shelton, Thomas (Translator); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Bookbinder); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Related people: Quixote, Don (Fictitious character)
Publisher: printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Edward Blount
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1620
Language: English
Size and medium: [18], 276, 279-504, [2] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731302
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019912366305181
Description
Translation attributed to Thomas Shelton. For evidence that Leonard Digges was the translator, see Anthony George Lo Rʹe, "Essays on the periphery of the Quixote", p. 29ff.
With an additional title page, engraved: The history of Don-Quichote. The second parte.
Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: pi1 A⁸ B⁸(±B4) C-2I⁸ 2K⁴.
Running title reads: The second part of Don Quixote.
Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 04 copy lacks blank last leaf.
Stationers' Register: Entered 5 December 1615.
Indexed in: STC (2nd ed.),
Indexed in: Pforzheimer,
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 04: 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 04: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022.
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