Celestina
Subtitle: or, The tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea
By: translated from the Spanish by James Mabbe, anno 1631; also An interlude of Calisto and Melebea (for the first time accurately reproduced from the original copy) printed by John Rastell, circa 1530.  Edited, with introduction on the picaresquenovel, and appendices, by H. Warner Allen.
Contributors: Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?.; Allen, H. Warner b. 1881.
Series: Broadway translations
Publisher: G. Routledge; E. P. Dutton
Published: 1923
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Picaresque literature.
Other titles: Calisto and Melebea.
Notes: Reissue of the edition published in Library of early novelists (London, Routledge; New York, Dutton, 1908).

Mabbe's translation was first published under the pseudonym, Don Diego Puede-Ser, with title: The Spanish Bawd, represented in Celestina; or, The Tragicke-Comedy of Calisto and Melibea.  London, 1631.

"A general outline of the rise of realism in the prose fiction of Spain, England, and France as illustrated by the picaresque novel and kindred works": p. viii-xix.

Appendix: I. Critical notes.--II. On the authorship and early history of the Comedia o tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea.--III. An interlude of Calisto and Melebea.

Includes bibliographical references.