page_title: Thomas Shelton (translator)
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Shelton (translator) / Publications
caption_attribution_description: Don Quixote - Cover illustration for London edition
context_page_description: Thomas Shelton was a translator of Don Quixote. Shelton's translation of the first part of the novel into English was published in London in 1612. It was the first translation into any language.
context_section_description: Shelton's first publication was a poem in Cynthia (London 1604), a book of lyric verse mentioned above in which the author, Nugent, included several pieces by his friends.
  Shelton wrote a sonnet prefixed to the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (Antwerp 1605) of Richard Verstegan.
caption: Cover of Thomas Shelton's 1620 translation of Don Quixote
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