The following excerpt is taken from El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha / by Miguel de Cervantes Saavadra [sic] ; Part II. Chapter LXI. Of what befell Don Quixote on entering Barcelona, together with other matters containing more truth than wisdom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616, author.

Contributor:

Cohen, J. M. (John Michael), 1903-1989, translator.

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017, printer.

Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.), publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Don Quixote. Pt. 2. Ch. 61. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kis-Janson.

Mohawk Letterpress (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

DePol, John, 1913-2004 (bookplate) (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

DePol, Helena (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Stauffacher, Jack Werner (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco, Calif.] : Greenwood Press, [1985]

Notes:

Printed on uncut double leaves.

Colophon: "150 copies printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper and handset in Kis-Janson types by Jack W. Stauffacher in celebration of fifty years of his Greenwood Press 1935-1985 ... San Francisco California. The translation is by J.M. Cohen ... Cover: A page from the first edition of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, printed by Juan de la Cuesta, Madrid, 1605."

Bound in printed yellow wrapper.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has promotional circular for Book Club of California's 75th anniversary keepsake.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 114. Has inscription: "For Helena & John DePol in remembrance to your visit to Greenwood Press. Jack Stauffacher, 23 November 1987 San Francisco"

OCLC:

40414566