![]() ![]() For almost 130 years no publisher risked reprinting it. Rival translators, literary hucksters, and careless scholars initiated or fed a variety of charges against Smollett-even plagiarism. However, soon after the start of the nineteenth century, its reputation began to suffer. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory "Life of Cervantes." Smollett's Don Quixote first appeared in 1755 and was for many years the most popular English-language version of Cervantes's masterpiece. This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De Brack, O M, Jr Smollett, Tobias George ![]()
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