_Don Quixote_ first appeared in Madrid in 1605 and the second
part in 1615. Other noteworthy Spanish editions were by
Pellicier (Madrid, 1797-1798) and by Diego Clemencia (Madrid,
1833-1839). The first English version of the great Spanish
classic appeared in London in 1612. The translator was T.
Skelton. Other later English editions were J. Philips, 1687;
P. Motteux, 1700-1712; C. Jarvis, 1742; Tobias Smollett,
1755; A. J. Duffield, 1881; H. E. Watts, 1888, 1894. Watts'
edition contains a full biography.
A noteworthy edition of Cervantes is the English version by
Daniel Vierge in four volumes, with many fine illustrations,
which give the reader a series of sketches of Spanish life as
it is depicted in the pages of _Don Quixote_. Vierge's
edition is the most satisfactory that has ever been issued.
It is brought out in beautiful style by Charles Scribner's
Sons, New York.
A standard _Life of Cervantes_ is that by T. Roscoe, London,
1839. H. E. Watts has written a fine monograph in Great
Writers' Series, 1891. Other lives are by J. F. Kelly, 1892,
and A. F. Calvert, 1905. Lockhart's introduction is printed
in the Everyman edition of _Don Quixote_, the translation by
Motteux. This introduction makes thirty pages and gives
enough facts for the general reader, with a good estimate of
_Don Quixote_ and Cervantes' other works.