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The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant Don Quixote of the Mancha / written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes ; translated into English by Thomas Shelton and Mr. Blunt ; and now printed from the quarto edition of 1620 ; with a curious sett of cutts from the French of Coypell ; and several annotations and amendments not in any former edition ; with a preface giving an account of the present edition and explaining the nature of the work.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ6329 .A2 1733 v.1-4
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Contributor:
Elias, Archibald C., donor.
Handcock, Robert, former owner.
Handcock, Sarah, autographer.
Shelton, Thomas, active 1612.
Coypel, Charles-Antoine, 1694-1752.
Hyde, Sarah, active 1730-1746, printer.
Owen, Robert, -1747, bookseller.
Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Don Quixote. English
Language:
English
Genre:
Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Ireland -- Dublin -- 18th century.
Fiction.
Physical Description:
4 volumes : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)
Fingerprint:
s.of otof u-ld *Mve (3) 1733 (R) v.1
ofnd i-ew l.ch Deru (3) 1733 (R) v.2
ldh- t,g- hemy beth (3) 1733 (R) v.3
e-er s.n- ndn- 'Tto (3) 1733 (R) v.4
Place of Publication:
Dublin : Printed by and for S. Hyde and J. Dobson, and for R. Owen, 1733.
Notes:
Signatures: v. 1: pi1 a⁸ A-L¹² ; v. 2: pi1 A-L¹² M¹⁰ ; v. 3: pi1 A-M¹² ; v. 4: pi1 A-L¹².
Title of each vol. within border of double rules.
Folded engraved plates.
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Subscription list among preliminaries of v. 1.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center PQ6329 .A2 1733 presented to the Penn Libraries by Archibald C. Elias. Each volume has armorial bookplate of Robert Handcock on front pastedown, autograph of Sarah Handcock (dated 1737) on title leaf, and stamp with initials "RH" on title leaf; some ms. underlines in pencil and a few in ink; occasional ms. notes. Volume 1 has a few pencil sketches on back free endpapers and back pastedown; pencil tests on verso of leaf preceding title leaf; bookseller's description of set laid in.
Cited in:
ESTC T59504
Chau & Chau. Blunden 9194
OCLC:
23352053

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