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ESCOBAR, Juan de. Hystoria del muy noble, y valeroso cavallero, El Cid Ruy Diez de Biuar: en Romances: en lenguaje antiguo. Recopilados por Iuan de Escobar. Lisbon: por Antonio Alvarez, con licencia de la Sancta Inquisicion, 1605.
Small 8° (120 x 85mm). Collation: *8 A-t8. 150 (of 160?) leaves. Woodcut initial, woodcut tailpiece, 6 woodcut illustrations on verso of *4. (Lacks *8 possibly blank, A1 and last ?8 leaves, title torn and repaired, corner torn from A3 with loss of a few letters, other leaves slightly soiled, some tears, mostly marginal, a few leaves with outer margin strengthened, minor wormholes in inner margin.) Contemporary limp vellum (spine very worn, stubs of leather ties), in modern red calf box. Provenance: Joao de Quintal Lobo (signed on verso of *7; Joao Ribeiro (signature on endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, with licence leaf dated 1605; APPARENTLY THE ONLY EXTANT COPY. An edition dated 1601, has in fact a licence leaf of 1610, the date being presumably a misprint for 1610 or 1611. A copy of the present 1605 edition, discovered in Porto, was described in 1868 by Theophilo Braga in Floresta de Varios. This copy was subsequently sold at the sale of the library of the Márquez de Castello Melhor, Lisbon 1878, and bought by Fernando Palha for 50,010 reis, and has since been lost. Palau believed the 1605 edition to be a ghost, "son pura invencion". The first edition recorded by bibliographers is dated 1610, of which no copy is known. The earliest editions in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid are an Alcala 1612 edition; an Alcala and also a Lisbon, Antonio Alvarez, 1614 edition. In all at least 17 editions were published between 1612 and 1695, most of considerable rarity.
One of the great romances of Spanish literature, translated into many languages and still reprinted. Escobar assembled the collection of the romances of the Cid into one consecutive Hystoria arranged as a novel, which gripped the public imagination. R. Menendez Pidal, Romancero hispanico, (1953), vol.II pp 164ff; Antonio Pérez Gómez, "Sobre la primera edicion del Romancero de Escobar." Estudios dedicados a Menendez Pidal, Madrid 1956. vol.VI pp459-463; A. Palau y Dulcet, Manual del Librero Hispanoamericano, vol.V (1951), p.96.
Small 8° (120 x 85mm). Collation: *8 A-t8. 150 (of 160?) leaves. Woodcut initial, woodcut tailpiece, 6 woodcut illustrations on verso of *4. (Lacks *8 possibly blank, A1 and last ?8 leaves, title torn and repaired, corner torn from A3 with loss of a few letters, other leaves slightly soiled, some tears, mostly marginal, a few leaves with outer margin strengthened, minor wormholes in inner margin.) Contemporary limp vellum (spine very worn, stubs of leather ties), in modern red calf box. Provenance: Joao de Quintal Lobo (signed on verso of *7; Joao Ribeiro (signature on endpaper).
FIRST EDITION, with licence leaf dated 1605; APPARENTLY THE ONLY EXTANT COPY. An edition dated 1601, has in fact a licence leaf of 1610, the date being presumably a misprint for 1610 or 1611. A copy of the present 1605 edition, discovered in Porto, was described in 1868 by Theophilo Braga in Floresta de Varios. This copy was subsequently sold at the sale of the library of the Márquez de Castello Melhor, Lisbon 1878, and bought by Fernando Palha for 50,010 reis, and has since been lost. Palau believed the 1605 edition to be a ghost, "son pura invencion". The first edition recorded by bibliographers is dated 1610, of which no copy is known. The earliest editions in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid are an Alcala 1612 edition; an Alcala and also a Lisbon, Antonio Alvarez, 1614 edition. In all at least 17 editions were published between 1612 and 1695, most of considerable rarity.
One of the great romances of Spanish literature, translated into many languages and still reprinted. Escobar assembled the collection of the romances of the Cid into one consecutive Hystoria arranged as a novel, which gripped the public imagination. R. Menendez Pidal, Romancero hispanico, (1953), vol.II pp 164ff; Antonio Pérez Gómez, "Sobre la primera edicion del Romancero de Escobar." Estudios dedicados a Menendez Pidal, Madrid 1956. vol.VI pp459-463; A. Palau y Dulcet, Manual del Librero Hispanoamericano, vol.V (1951), p.96.