Male : Novelist & Dramatist. Only two of his plays survive. Enlisted in the army of Philip II. Captured by Barbary pirates in 1575 he was ransomed in 1580. Back in Madrid he took up dreary administrative posts, was imprisoned for debt many times,

Nationality : Spanish Place of Birth : Alcala de Henares

Date of Birth : 1547 Date of Death : 1616 Age : 69

Other Work : Tax Collector. Soldier

16th & 17thC
La Galatea (1585, tr 1901-3)
The History of the Valorous & Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote : 1st Part (1605)
The History of the Valorous & Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote : 2nd Part (1615)
[In this book he invents two of the most powerful characters in literature, Don Quixote,
the "Knight of the Doleful Countenance", and Sancho Panza, the small squat squire]
[Filmed in 1933 & 1951]
Novelas Ejemplares (1613, tr 1902) - short stories
The History of the Valorous and Witty knight Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha
(1675 for R Scot, London)
Offered in 1992 for £500

18thC
Persiles and Sigismunda : A Celebrated Novel (1741 Ward & Chandler, London) - 2 vols
Novellas Examplares, or Exemplary Novels in Six Books (1743 C Hitch, London)
Don Quixote (1755 ptd for Millar, London) - 2 vols. 1st Ed of Smollett's Trans
The Life & Exploits of the ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote (1766 Tonson. 4th Ed) - 4 vols
The History and Adventures of Don Quixote (1782 Strahan, London) - 4 vols. Plates by Hayman

19thC
The Life & Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
(1809 H Oddy, London) - 2 vols
Galatea : A Pastoral Romance (1813 London)
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1818 Cadell & Davies) - 4 vols. Robert Smirke
The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
(1820 Hurst, Robinson, London) - 4 vols. Designs by Richard Westall
The Spirit of Cervantes, or Don Quixote Abridged (1820 Rivington) - Francis Hayman
Offered in 1999 for £410
The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote (1824 Jones, London) - 2 vols. George Cruikshank
The History of Don Quixote (nd. 1866 Cassell, Petter & Galpin) - Gustave Dore
Offered in 1995 for £200
Adventures of Don Quixote (1866 Warne) - Houghton
The Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1881 Kegan Paul) - 3 vols
The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha (1896 Tudor Translations, London) - 4 vols

20thC
Don Quixote of the Mancha (1900 Blackie) - Walter Crane
The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
(1910 John Grant, Edinburgh) - 4 vols
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1922 Constable) - Jean de la Bosschere
The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha (1923 Navarre Society, London) - 2 vols
The First & Second Part of the History of the Valorous & Wittie Knight-Errant Don Quixote
(1927-8 Ashendene Press) - Ltd Ed 245. 2 vols
The Spanish Lady & Two Other Stories from Cervantes (1928 OUP) - Douglas Percy Bliss
Don Quixote (1930 Nonesuch Press) - 2 vols. E McKnight Kauffer. Ltd Ed 1475
Offered in 1991 for £350
Don Quixote of La Mancha (1933 Ltd Eds Club, Barcelona) - 2 vols.
1500 signed by Enric-Cristobal Ricart
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha (1949 Viking NY) - 1st Samuel Putnam Trans
Don Quixote (1980 Methuen) - George Him
Don Quixote (2004 Secker & Warburg) - Translated by Edith Grossman

READING
Juan Arbo : Cervantes - Adventurer, Idealist & Destiny's Fool (1955 Thames & Hudson 21/-)
Richard L Predmore : Cervantes (1973)
Jean Caravaggio : Cervantes (1990)