Don Quixote de la Mancha / translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra [by Mary Smirke] ; embellished with engravings from pictures painted by Robert Smirke; in four volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Contributor:

Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845.

Smirke, Mary

Craig D. Ritchie Bequest Fund.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Don Quixote. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

[Large paper edition].

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies by W. Bulmer and Co., 1818.

Notes:

"Memoirs of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra": V. 1, pages [xxxiii]-lxviii.

English translation made by the artist's daughter, Mary Smirke, is based upon the Spanish text of Pellicer (published in 1808).

Illustrated with 48 plates (engravings after Robert Smirke by various engravers).

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy has ms. bibliographical note in pencil on verso of front free endpaper of v. 1; each vol. has ms. inscription ("AW") in pencil on last printed page.

Singer-Mendenhall copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Craig D. Ritchie Bequest Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy extra-illlustrated with 24 plates (engravings after Westall by Charles Heath, published by Hurst, Robinson and Co. and dated 1820).

Singer-Mendenhall copy: each vol. bound in full red leather; boards tooled in gold and blind; 4 raised, gold-tooled double bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title, volume number, place and date of publication stamped in gold on spine; all edges gilt; green silk marker.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: v. 1: left board detached.

OCLC:

702137986

Publisher Number:

PML 4039-4047