NY: Harper and Brothers, 1903/1876, 1st printing as to illustrator. Ivory vellum boards with gilt figure and title, script titles, coloured frontis and 39 half tone umber plates, as issued, top edge gilt, deckle edges, green page border decorations by Robert Murray Wright; xii + 248 pp. Juvenile hardback. A......
Timperley, UK: John Sherratt and Sons; late 1940's reprint./1890 thus adapted, (titles of jacket back); red cloth boards with printed orange and black design showing Don Quixote seated with his book of chivalry and his sword, in grey jacket with same design and titles in orange; 11 roughly coloured illustrations.....
Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1958, probably first or year of publication since Garden City 1959 books not mentioned on flap;. Picture Book hardback. Told in a way to captivate a small child, with a few sentences on each spread and large dramatic pictures featuring Rosinante and Dapple.
New York: Methuen, Inc., 1980 simultaneous publication, 1st thus abridged from Cohen's 1950 translation; brown cloth with the hero in his nightshirt brandishing a sword stamped in gilt; in light brown jacket with Don Quixote and Rocinante about to challenge the windmills; 8vo; 207 pp. Juvenile hardback. Lively and amusing.....
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, (1881, 1897 Oliver Optic text, Lee & Shepard), probable first in this format, glossy paper-covered heavy card boards, titles and cover illustration outlined in gilt, red cloth spine, large b/w illustration on back, no ads; 3 chromolithos incld frontis, b/w illustrations, about 38 in all, Address.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, October, 1908, 1st American sd colophon; pale green bookcloth with gilt titles and top edge; gilt rule on top board; tissue guarded frontis and red and black printed title page; 8vo; 302 pp. Juvenile hardback. A nice copy of this wonderful book!
New York and London: Frederick Warne & Co. 12 East 33d Street, (1906) early US edition: certainly 1911 to 1920, probably mid to late teens; brown paper boards with silver titles and circular plate of Jeremy fishing, pasted down endpapers with Mrs. Tittlemouse and Bee, no central picture; no printer.....
New York: W. W. Norton, Inc, 1964, 1st, nl; pale yellow boards, jacket with paintings of the princes, 6.5x9.75"; 228 pp. Juvenile hardback. A very diverse group of princes! James Thurber, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Charles Dickens, Eleanor Farjeon, and other well know authors.