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The Spanish decameron, or, Ten novels
- Title
- The Spanish decameron, or, Ten novels / made English by Sir Roger Lestrange.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- The third edition
- Published
- London : Printed by E.P. for Geo. Harris, next door to the Bagnio in St. James's street, 1712.
- Description
- [4], 432 p. ; 17 cm. (8vo)
- Other contributors
- L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616. Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de, 1584-1648?.
- Notes
- Translation via the French, of selections from Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares and Castillo Solórzano's La garduña de Sevilla. First published 1684; 2nd ed. published 1700. Many mispaginations. Fiction.
- Contents
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- The rival ladies ; Mistakes ; Generous lover ; Libertine ; Virgin captive / Cervantes Saavedra
- Perfidious mistress ; Metamorphos'd lover ; Imposter out-witted ; Amorous miser ; Pretended alchymist / Castillo Solórzano.
- References
- Halkett & Laing, v. 5, p. 337. BM, v. 227, col. 68. Wing, C1780.
- Kinsey subjects
- Love.