{"product_id":"cervantes-saavedra-miguel-de-1","title":"CERVANTES SAAVEDRA., Miguel de.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.An outstanding English copy of one of the earliest editions of Don Quixote (first 1605) according to Ruis the best to date and the seventh overall. Most importantly, it was the first printed outside the Iberian peninsula, the edition that introduced the text to the non-Spanish world, and in particular to the readers of Northern Europe, who absolutely loved it. Often described as the first modern novel, copies were thoroughly read and examples in fine contemporary condition are rare. This copy was in England very soon after publication, the binding dates from the early years of the C17. Before the end of that century it was in the library of Arthur Charlett, Royal Chaplain, Master of University College Oxford, owner of a very extensive library - how many novels I wonder? He is probably responsible for the spine label and certainly the first  bookpile  bookplate in England (cf. David Pearson) which he commissioned in 1698 from Samuel Pepys. After his death, intestate his books were sold at auction and widely dispersed. The next identifiable private owner, Jean Peeters-Fontainas was the pre-eminent bibliographer of the Spanish imprints of the Low Countries, then part of the Spanish Empire.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n .Apart from vastly expanding Don Quixote s readership, Velpius also materially corrected and improved the text which is based on Cuesta s second edition (Madrid, 1605), but now shorn of its many errors and imperfections both of printing and in the text itself. As Alan Thomas used to remark, if you did not know who Cervantes was you would not be reading this, but the learned editors of Printing and the Mind of Man put it so well that it bears repetition:  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n . What had begun as a simple satire broadened into a sweeping panorama of Spanish society; and it was this, the variety the liveliness, and the gibes at the famous, which won it instant fame. Its larger claims, the subdued pathos, its unusual humanity, were slower to be appreciated. But within months, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had become legendary   Don Quixote is one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times, and there are very few who have not at one time or another felt themselves to be Don Quixote confronting the windmills or Sancho Panza at the inn .   Printing and the Mind of Man 111 on the first edition. Bloom described Don Quixote as  to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English , these two great giants died on 23.rd. April 1616, the same day.  \u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n Peeters-Fontainas 225 (this copy). Rius 7  En calidad del papel, finura de tipos y esmero de impresión, es superior esta edicion á las anteriores . Palau III 51981.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CERVANTES SAAVEDRA., Miguel de.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57859652911439,"sku":"L3696","price":98500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/L3696-1.jpg?v=1781793719","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/cervantes-saavedra-miguel-de-1","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}