The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha : Containing his Fourth Sally, and the Fifth Part of His Adventures. Now First Translated from the Spanish. [Provincial Imprint] 3 volumes complete.

Fernández de Avellaneda, Alonso. (Don Miguel de Cervantes)

Edité par D. Sudbury., Swaffham (Norfolk, England), 1805

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3 volumes with vol 1 with Xliv pp dedicatory & preface + 240 pages (mis-paginated from page 219 to show numbers 300 to 340, but signatures correct). Volume 2 has 286 pages (collated) Volume 3 has 233 pages, printed on hand-made rag paper, bound in 6's. full contemporary smooth tan calf, gilt ruled borders a little worn inplaces, corners rounded or rubbed with a little surface loss in small part to edges, lacking their original morocco labels on the spines, one page is still unopened, 3. RARE. *One copy located in Cambridge University Library and that copy bound as 3 volumes in 1. This anonymous three-volume direct translation of a Spanish edition corrected by Don Isidro Perales y Torres appeared in Swaffham in 1805 and was the first edition translated from the Spanish, two 18th century English editions were published previous to this set but translated from the French. NOTE*Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes' Don Quixote, before Cervantes finished and published his own second volume. The identity of Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. Cervantes knew that Avellaneda was a pseudonym and that the volume's publication information was false. Cervantes also indicated four times in the second part of his Don Quixote that Avellaneda was from Aragon. One theory holds that Avellaneda's work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega, although none of them were from Aragon. Another theory is that it was by Gerónimo de Passamonte, born in Aragon, the real-life inspiration for the character Ginés de Pasamonte of Part I. In fact, Avellaneda knows and praises the Brotherhood of the Santísimo Rosario of Calatayud, and there is only one candidate who could have known that brotherhood: Jerónimo de Pasamonte, who wrote in his autobiography that he entered that same brotherhood at the age of 13. Critical opinion has generally held Avellaneda's work in low regard, and Cervantes himself is highly critical of it in his own Part 2. However, it is possible that Cervantes would never have composed his own continuation without the stimulus Avellaneda provided. VERY RARE.

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• Titre: The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha : Containing his Fourth Sally, and the Fifth Part of His Adventures. Now First Translated from the Spanish. [Provincial Imprint] 3 volumes complete.
• Éditeur: D. Sudbury., Swaffham (Norfolk, England)
• Date de parution: 1805
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Calf
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
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