The Spanish decameron: or, Ten novels : Viz. The rival ladies. The mistakes. The generous lover. The libertine. The virgin captive. The perfidious mistress. The metamorphos'd lover. The imposture out-witted. The amorous miser. The pretended alchymist. Made English by R.L. The second edition. Licensed according to order.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648? English.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.

L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 48, 65-319 pages, 5 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

London : printed by G. Croom, for W. Hawes at the Ros[e], in Ludgate-street. P. Gilbourne, at the corner of Chancery-lane in Fleet-street, and W. Davis, at the Black Bull in Cornhill, [circa 1700]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The first five stories are translated from Cervantes' Novelas exemplares; the others, from Alonso Castillo Solórzano's La garduña de Sevilla.

The words "The rival ... captive." and "The persidious .. alchymist." are in columns on the title page.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

Imperfect; pages are stained and tightly bound with slight loss of text.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2061:26) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Wing (2nd edition) S4803B

Related Work:

Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648? Garduña de Sevilla y anzuelo de las bolsas, English. Selections.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Novelas ejemplares. Selections. English

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