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 ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256311
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 8vo. Pencil code on rear pastedown in v. 1: "ap/e". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full white publisher's cloth; double gilt fillet to form an outer border on upper boards; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: fleur-de-lys in circle; spines gilt, lettered direct: 'The history of Don Quixote translated by Thomas Shelton'; gilt top edges; light blue ribbon marker in each vol. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), author F. J. Harvey Darton (1878 - 1936), author Thomas Shelton (fl.1612), translator