NMLP P-037975 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha)

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · Juan de la Cuesta for the bookseller Francisco de Robles, Madrid · 1605

Second textual point: the first edition does not narrate the theft and recovery of Sancho's ass (the 'hurto del rucio'); the second Cuesta 1605 edition inserts those passages, awkwardly placed, and Cervantes himself blames the printers for the muddle in Part II. The 1605 first is notoriously full of typographic and chapter-numbering errors, a consequence of hasty Spanish printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-037975 for "Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha)" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037975, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).