CERVANTES, Miguel de.

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El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha; An exceptional ensemble of lifetime editions, pairing the second printing of the second part (published only months after the first), with an early edition of the first part, with text corrections, published six years after the first.The first part was originally published in Madrid by Juan de la Cuesta in 1605; the second part was first published by Cuesta in 1615, the year before Cervantes's death. The first complete edition of Don Quixote, combining both parts with the same date, did not appear until 1617, in Barcelona.The first part here is the second Brussels edition, succeeding the first of 1607. It was published by Rutger Velpius, official printer to the court in Brussels, and his son-in-law Hubert Anthoine, who worked together from 1601 onwards. Based on the second Cuesta edition, it corrected several obvious errors in the text, although, astonishingly, only two of those corrections found their way into the third Cuesta edition of 1608. Velpius died around 1614-15, leaving Hubert Anthoine to succeed him. Anthoine's edition of the second part was published only a few months after the princeps by Cuesta and follows it closely. Brussels was a natural locus for publication of Don Quixote in northern Europe, as it was then under Hapsburg suzerainty as one of the capitals of the Spanish Netherlands.Don Quixote is a landmark of Western literature and one of the most-translated books in the world. "It was the variety, the livelin

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