Research Catalog

Title

The first [second] part of the history of the valourous and wittie knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, translated out of the Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII-[XX]

Author

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Publication

Chelsea [London], The Ashendene Press, 1927-[28]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shelton, Thomas, active 1612.
• John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Description

2v.; fol.

Alternative Title

Don Quixote.

Note

• Printed in double columns.
• Marginal paragraph contents in red.
• Colophon of v. 1: Here ends the first part of the history of the valorous and wittie knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated out of the Spanish tongue into the English by Thomas Shelton and first printed in the yeare one thousand, six hundred & twelve by William Stansby. Now newly imprinted by St. John Hornby ... at his private press called the Ashendene Press, Shelley House, Chelsea, in the county of London. The work was begun in november of the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty five and ended in May of the year nineteen hundred and twenty seven. The initials and borders were designed by Louise Powell and cut on wood by W.M. Quick and Geo. H. Ford ... Two hundred and twenty five copies have been printed upon paper and twenty copies upon vellum. Lau Deo.
• Mark of the Ashendene Press in red.

Call Number

*KP+++ (Ashendene) (Cervantes Saavedra, M. de. First [second] part of the history of the valourous and wittie knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha)

LCCN

28020240

OCLC

2326677

Author

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Title

The first [second] part of the history of the valourous and wittie knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, translated out of the Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII-[XX]

Imprint

Chelsea [London], The Ashendene Press, 1927-[28]

Local Note

2742

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Added Author

Shelton, Thomas, active 1612. Translator

John Shaw Billings Memorial Collection.

Added Title

Don Quixote.

Research Call Number

*KP+++ (Ashendene) (Cervantes Saavedra, M. de. First [second] part of the history of the valourous and wittie knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha)