The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha. Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Jarvis, Esq. Now carefully revised and corrected: with a new translation of the Spanish poetry. To which is prefixed a copious and new live of Cervantes; including a critique of the Quixote; also a chronological plan of the work. Embellished with new engravings, and a map of part of Spain. In four volumes. ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1801
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3187467
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates : ill., map ; 8vo. Imperfect: lacks v. 1. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Mary Dorothea Phillips [i.e. Mary Dorothea Phillips, wife of Nathaniel Phillips, of Slebech, Pembrokeshire (1730-1813), mother of Louisa Catherine, Lady Lichfield]. Endpaper inscribed: Mrs Phillips. Binding: nineteenth-century tree calf; gilt roll border; gilt tooled spine (badly faded) and board edges; missing spine labels.
Makers and roles
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) Charles Jervas (Dublin 1675 – London 1739)