Authority Cited: Jervas (Jervas's Introduct. to Don Quixote; Jervas to Pope)
Author name and dates: Charles Jervas (1675-1739)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish portrait painter to London luminaries, art collector; accurate translator of Don Quixote; friend of Pope and Swift
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Jervas cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Jervas cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 141 3. Don Quixote, 2t. &c., which may be the Jervas edition.]
Author name and dates: Charles Jervas (1675-1739)
BKG Bio-tweet: Irish portrait painter to London luminaries, art collector; accurate translator of Don Quixote; friend of Pope and Swift
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two Jervas cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No additional Jervas cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., lists item 141 3. Don Quixote, 2t. &c., which may be the Jervas edition.]
- Introduction to Don Quixote; The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de La Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra by Charles Jarvis, Esq., in two volumes, 1742 London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand and R. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; adroit (inexact quote, perhaps from memory. Dict.: "An adroit stout fellow would sometimes destroy a whole family, with justice apparently against him the whole time."; Text, vol. 1, p. xii of the Translator's Preface : ". . . a strong adroit fellow has extinguished a whole generation, and the merits of the cause point blank against him all the while." [BKG Note: published posthumously in 1742 with name misspelled as Jarvis - see image below]
- Jervas to Pope; The works of Alexander Pope, Esq; Vol. VI. Containing the remainder of his letters, 1737, London : printed for J. Roberts in Warwick lane; feuillage [sp. fueilage in this edition] (Letter XVI, Mr. Jervas to Mr. Pope, Aug. 20, 1714, p.77) [BKG Note: this letter may appear in other editions of Pope's Works. The edition used by SJ is uncertain.]
- Jervas (no work cited)
