NMLP P-037977 · Book-club / reprint tell · 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
No book-club era applies to the 17th-century printings. The contemporary traps are the 1605 piracies — two Lisbon editions and one Valencia edition (approbation dated 18 July 1605) — all dated 1605 and all regularly mislabeled as 'the 1605 first edition'; none is. In practice essentially every copy encountered is a 19th- or 20th-century English translation or an illustrated reprint (Motteux, Jarvis, Ormsby, Limited Editions Club/Heritage, Easton, Franklin), i.e. first-thus at best.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-037977 for "Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha)" by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037977, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).