The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha / translated from the original Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, by Charles Jarvis, esq., now carefully revised and corrected with a new translation of the Spanish poetry ; to which is prefixed a copious and new life of Cervantes, including a critique on the Quixote, also a chronological plan of the work ; embellished with new engravings, and a map of part of Spain ; in four volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

Contributor:

Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739.

Ríos, Vincente de los, 1732-1779.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Don Quixote. English

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Charles E. Lauriat Co. (stamp) (Frost Collection copy)

Leisenring, Julia B. (donor) (RBC copy)

Caruso, Henry D. (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, 1 portrait, 1 folded map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for William Miller, 1810.

Notes:

The life of Cervantes is based on that by V. de los Rios. Cf. Preface, v. 1, p. vii.

A reprint of the edition of 1801. Cf. Barcelona. Biblioteca Central. Catálogo de la collección cervantina. v. 2, no. 518.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy: v. 1 has ms. note ("Engravings by Stothard.") in pencil on verso of front free endpaper.

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy: each volume had stamp ("CHARLES E. LAURIAT CO. BOSTON.") on verso of front free endpaper.

Frost Collection copy: each volume bound in full calf(?); boards tooled in gold; 5 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("DON QUIXOTE"); green leather spine label with volume number stamped in gold; imprint date stamped in gold at foot of spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; brown silk marker.

RBC copy: v. 1 has ms. note ("Plates by Stothard") in pencil on blank leaf preceding title half-title leaf.

RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Julia B. Leisenring.

RBC copy: v. 4 has armorial bookplate of Henry D. Caruso (1846-1904) on front pastedown.

RBC copy: v. 1 has clipping from an unidentified publication (headline: MISTRANSLATIONS OF "DON QUIXOTE" From the London News.) affixed to blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.

RBC copy: v. 1: one board and front free endpaper wanting; one board and blank leaf preceding half-title leaf detached.

RBC copy: v. 3-4: left board detached.

OCLC:

228683775