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Description: Foolscap8vo, xvi, 391, vii, 479 p. Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt, yellow endpapers. Hinges broken, covers mottled, top blank fifth of contents page cut out, no loss of text otherwise VG contents. Scarce, WorldCat lists just 9 copies. Two volumes in one as issued. First edition thus. The title continues: the author of Don Quixote de la Mancha, published at Madrid in 1613; so called because in each of them he proposed useful example to be either imitated or avoided.
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Description: In the chapter ÒEnglishing CervantesÕÊExemplary Novels,Ó Frances Luttikhuizen describes the present translation as Òwell worth analyzingÓ because Òit belongs to the general nineteenth century movement of literary expurgations, more specifically, to the periodÉ[called] female-authored Moral-Domestic fiction,Ó (p. 89). It is possible, based on LuttikhuizenÕs findings on the history of translations of CervantesÕ Novelas ejemplares, that Maria Sarah Moore (1780-1842) was the first woman to publish English translations of these particular works. Two volumes, twelvemo. xvi, 391 pp.; vii, [1] erratum, 479 pp. Late nineteenth century half green morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule. Gilt spines with five raised bands. Top edge gilt. Minor toning to spine of volume two. Some foxing and toning throughout but overall a very good, tight set. First edition. The preface to volume two promises a forthcoming third volume, though only two volumes were ever published. These two volumes contain only ten of CervantesÕ twelve Novelas ejemplares. Note that, while Maria Sarah Moore (1780-1842) is not credited as the translator of the present work, it is attributed to her in both the British MuseumÕs 1908 Catalogue of Printed Books: Cervantes (p. 57) and William CushingÕs 1889 Anonyms: A Dictionary of Revealed Authorship (p. 230). Maria Sarah Moore was the daughter of Peter Moore (1753Ð1827), a Member of Parliament and a civil servant of the East India Company, and a resident of a manor in Monken Hadley, a historical village at the northern edge of Greater London. A record of the parish of Monken Hadley reveals that Moore was the primary inheritor of her fatherÕs fortune and property upon his death, and she lived at the manor, unmarried, until she sold the property in 1832. Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary MenÉno. 6, v. 9, 1884, p. 358. Frederick Charles Cass, Monken Hadley (1880), pp. 73-76. Frances Luttikhuizen, ÒEnglishing CervantesÕÊExemplary Novels.Ó In The CervanteanÊHeritage: ReceptionÊandÊInfluenceÊofÊCervantes inÊBritain (2009) pp. 84-94.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.