The rogue, or, The life of Guzman de Alfarache / written in Spanish by Matheo Aleman, servant to his Catholike Maiestie, and borne in Sevill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alemán, Mateo, 1547-1614?

Contributor:

Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?

Turner, William, -1643, printer.

Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Spanish Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aveturas y vida de Guzmán de Alfarache. English

Language:

English

Esperanto

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Elizabethan Bookseller (Waukegan, Illinois) (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages, 267 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 357 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 28 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Rogue

Life of Guzman de Alfarache

Guzman de Alfarache

Fingerprint:

,yi- y.r, o-th wewe (3) 1630 (A)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Printed by William Turner, for Robert Allot ..., ann. Dom. 1630.

Notes:

A translation into English of: Aventuras y vida de Guzmán de Alfarache, which was originally published in two parts as Primera [Segunda] Parte de Guzman de Alfarache.

Translator's dedication signed: Don Diego Puede--Ser, i.e. James Mabbe. Cf. ESTC.

The second part has special title page with title: The rogue, or The second part of the life of Guzman de Alfarache; and separate pagination.

Title pages and text within woodcut borders; woodcut device, initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Signatures: *⁶ [superscript pi]A⁶ A-Z⁶ 2a² 2*⁸ 2A-3G⁶ (2G6 and 3G6 blank).

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Includes index.

Identified as STC 906:11 on UMI microfilm.

Local Notes:

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy is part of a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy has with former ownership crossed over with black ink and few marks and drawing on title page.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy has leaf *2 mended with no loss of text; typewritten description laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has label of Elizabethan Bookseller (Waukegan, Illinois) on front pastedown.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 290

ESTC S106807

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, 41

OCLC:

4017308