That Imaginative Don Quijote de la Mancha (2nd ed, 1914)

A fairly rare early copy of Robinson Smith's translation of Don Quixote

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Second edition. Hardback, bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine. Page edges untrimmed. 23 × 14.5cm, lx + 752pp.

This is the second edition of American scholar and biographer Robinson Smith's translation of Cervantes' Don Quixote. It was first published in 1910 and considered an important early 20th-century translation. This second edition contains a lengthy new life of Cervantes with notes and appendices (the life of Cervantes was also published separately as a stand alone book).

Cervantes' classic tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of the lady of his dreams, Dulcinea del Toboso.

Condition

Good. There is some mottling, marking and bumping to the blue cloth and tanning to the page edges. Some pages uncut (ie unopened along the top edge) and some have been opened a little hastily. However, the book remains in strong readable condition and the earlier editions of this translation are becoming quite scarce.