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MANUEL, Don Juan. YORK, James [translator]. COUNT LUCANOR: Or, The Fifty Pleasant Stories of Patronio, Written by the Prince Don Juan Manuel, A.D. 1335-1347. First Done into English from the Spanish, by James York, Doctor of Medicine. mdccclxviii.
Piccadilly: Basil Montague Pickering. 1868. First Edition in English Hardcover Very Good
First edition in English. Small octavo, original brown cloth with line decorations in red, gilt titles on spine panel. Elaborate decorated title page, Aldine Press device on verso of half-title leaf. xvi + 246 pp. Note: both front and rear free endpapers bear publisher's ads. Outer rear spine hinge neatly repaired, light wear at extremities. Previous owner's names on front endpaper and half-title leaf, bookseller's description (describing a different, inscribed copy) affixed to front pastedown; a very good, sound copy. ¶ The rare first edition in English of this classic 14th Century Spanish work. Don Juan Manuel [1282 -1348] was the son of don Fernando and the nephew of Alfonso X the Wise, king of the Kingdom of Castille. One of the first books written in Castillian, the 'language of Romance', COUNT LUCANOR has as its sources the works of Aesop, the classics, and Arabian folktales (such as A Thousand and One Nights), but is very much an original work. The fifty-one stories of Count Lucanor are all written as "framed stories" - a story within a story. In each story Count Lucanor asks his servant Patronio a question, and gives him a problem to solve. Patronio on his part tells a story with a similar problem and from its conclusion a solution is extracted. If Count Lucanor likes the solution he puts this moral in a verse in his book. The book also contains two hundred proverbs that are still known and common today. Highly influential on William Shakespeare and Hans Christian Anderson, to name but two authors, COUNT LUCANOR is generally considered to be one of the earliest works of prose fiction.
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100.00 CDN
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