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Cervantes, Volume 1

Don Quixote de la Mancha: An Old-Spelling Control Edition Based on the First Editions of Parts 1 & 2

edited by R.M. Flores

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1988
Category
Classics
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774803014
    Publish Date
    Jan 1988
    List Price
    $85.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774844772
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95

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Description

 

No original manuscript of Don Quixote, nor of any other work by Cervantes exists, and so scholars studying this important novel have had to rely on corrected and modernized versions of the first printed texts. Following his pivotal work on the compositors of the first editions of Don Quixote I and II, where he shows that the typographical and orthographic inconsistencies are the result of spelling preferences by the early typesetters, R.M. Flores now offers Cervantes scholars a complete typographical analysis of the first editions of Don Quixote (Part I, Madrid 1605; Part II, Madrid 1615).

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote is the first ever to take all the typographical and textual evidence into consideration. It provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition and includes:

- detailed bibliographical descriptions of the copies of the first editions used as editor's copy;

- all pertinent information concerning the editorial policy;

- detailed and complete lists of all the readings replaced, set side by side with the editorial corrections;

- a text that reproduces the non-incidental seventeenth-century typographical and orthographic peculiarities of the first editions; and

- sequential line numbering for the entire text and bibliographical data pertaining to the part, section or chapter, signature, and first (fifth, tenth, etc.) line of the text of the first editions.

 

About the author

Contributor Notes

R.M. Flores (editor) is a professor in the department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia.