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[1687] "Don Quixote" Translation Attributed to John Philips

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Item Details

A 17th century English language copy of Don Quixote attributed as the first and only translation by John Philips (English, 1631-1706), nephew of poet John Milton’s. A typed letter dated 1919 is tipped in with the attribution. Title page and preliminary leaves are missing, though the gatherings do correspond to extant copies (ESTC 006104872).

Collational Formula:
2⁰: A 4 (lacks A1) 2 A 4 (-A1) B-R 4 S 4 (-S3) T-2O 4 2P 4 (-P3) Qq-4E 4 4F 4 (lacks 4F2) 4G-4I 4 4K 2

Title and Author/Editor The history of the most renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: and his trusty squire Sancho Pancha, now made English according to the humour of our modern language (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; John Philips)
Binding Cloth
Publisher or Printer [Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, and are to be sold by John Newton at the Three Pigeons over against the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleet-Street]
Publication Year attributed as 1687
Place of Publication [ London ]
Edition Statement Attributed as the first and only edition of the John Philips translation
Language English
Ex-Libris Horace Manchester Brown, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Number of Books 1

Condition

- rebound in 20th century cloth with paper spine label, lightly bumped corners; missing title page and some preliminary leaves, no frontispiece or other illustrations present; several pages with damage and repairs, some tears and stains; page 58 and 63 have numbers switched; most pages seem to have reinforcement in the gutter; some pages missing (please refer to collational formula); binding is tight, pages may have been trimmed.

Dimensions

7.75" W x 12.25" H x 2.0" D

Item #

ITMG181377

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