Count Lucanor
Subtitle: or, The fifty pleasant stories of Patronio
By: written by the Prince Don Juan Manuel, A. D. 1335-1347 ; first done into English from the Spanish by James York, Doctor of Medicine.
Contributors: Chiswick Press
Publisher: Basil Montagu Pickering; Chiwick Press: Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.)
Place of publication: Westminster [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Other titles: Fifty pleasant stories of Patronio
Notes: Publisher's device printed on half-title verso.

T.p. printed in red and black within wide wood-engraved decorative border.

Translation of "El Conde Lucanor".

"'El Conde Lucanor' first found its way into print in 1575, when it was published at Seville, under the auspices of Argote de Molina, whose elaborate genealogy of the author would delight a heraldic mind ... It has been the translator's aim to preserve, as much as possible, all the characteristic features of the original ... The notes appended to each chapter consist principally of historical and literary illustrations necessary to the complete understanding of the tales themselves, which, from their antiquity, may easily be supposed to contain many allusions to events and to persons now grown somewhat obscure.  In some of these the translator has been considerably indebted to the researches of M. Adolphe de Puibusque, whose French version of "Count Lucanor" was published in 1854."--Preface.

Includes wood-engraved decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

Includes "Index of names referred to in Count Lucanor.": p. [245]-246.

MASS copy: Bound in later dark brown calico cloth blocked in red with the spine blocked in gold.  Spine with imprint: "Pickering".  With [1-2] p. of publisher's advertisements inserted before upper and lower free endpapers.