PMM 111 Bloom, Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, p. RBH and ABPC record only 3 other copies at auction in the last 30 years. Velpius’s edition, which introduced the text to Northern Europe, is based on Cuedra’s second (with many misprints and other textual infelicities corrected). This edition is the seventh overall-all early editions are rare. It quickly went through numerous editions, translations, and piracies. Don Quixote won immediate fame when first printed in 1605 for its “variety, liveliness, and gibes at the famous.” Its subdued pathos and universal humanity have assured it a place as “one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times” (PMM). Ruiz notes that this edition was the most finely printed of the early versions to date. The first Brussels edition of the novel “which is to Spanish literature what Shakespeare is to English” (Bloom). El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de (1547-1616).
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