From the collection of the George Peabody Library
Collection number: 863.32 D6q 1781
The Reverend John Bowle edited the first Spanish version printed in
England with a complete scholarly apparatus. Reverend Bowle
hoped to create a market for subscribers by publishing two letters he had
written to Dr. Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, in 1777, in
which he refers to the progress of his forthcoming edition. Bowle was
known as a "difficult" individual, and his scholarly effort was
not without critics. By 1784 he was compelled to respond to "very
unfair practices ... of my edition of Don
Quixote...and have found the perpetrators ...to have been a false
friend, and another, whose encomium I should regard as an affront and real
slander...."
