Don Quixote (El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha)

The Madrid Spanish originals (Cuesta 1605 / 1615) precede everything in every language and are the true first. Both the Spanish first and the first English are collected. The first English — and the first translation into ANY language — is Thomas Shelton's 'The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha', London: printed by William Stansby for Ed. Blount and W. Barret, 1612 (STC 4915); Shelton's Part II followed, London, printed for Edward Blount, 1620. A trap worth knowing: Shelton did not translate from either authorized Madrid 1605 edition but from the unauthorized Spanish edition published at Brussels in 1607. The 18th-century Motteux (1700-03) and Jarvis (1742) versions are 'first thus' translations only, never the first edition of the work.