Lot 318
Fernandez de Avellaneda, Alonso
The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote, de la Mancha
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
Containing his Fourth Sally, and the Fifth Part of his Adventures ... With Illustrations and Corrections by the Licentiate Don Isidro Perales y Torres. And now first translated from the Spanish. Swaffham: D. Sudbury, 1805. 3 volumes, 12mo (17.5 x 10cm), contemporary calf, rebacked retaining most of original spines, edges sprinkled red, [2] 4 xliv 340, [2] 4 286, [2] 4 233 pp., covers rubbed, occasional spotting to contents, later ink inscriptions of one Edmund Esdaile (see below) to front endpapers or blanks
Footnote
Note: First and only edition, presentation copy of this rare translation of the unauthorised and pseudonymous continuation of Don Quixote, inscribed 'From the translator to Mrs Esdaile by Brigg Fountaine Esqr' on the title-page of the first volume. Brigg Fountaine alias Price, of Swaffham, Norfolk, died in 1825; little else about him is known. Library Hub traces three copies only in UK and Irish libraries. Avellaneda's work was first published in Spanish in 1614; an English translation first appeared in 1705.