Authority Cited: Motteux
Author name and dates: Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718)
BKG Bio-tweet: From Normandy at 25; edited Gentleman’s Journal; trans. of Rabelais (racy), Don Quixote; became importer; expired in brothel
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Motteux cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and one Don Quixote cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, credited to Motteux's Don Quixote in the 1773 Dict. Two Motteux cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. The edition used by SJ is unknown. The first edition of the title below was 1700-1703. See Cervantes for editions (not this title) in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library.]
Author name and dates: Peter Anthony Motteux (1660-1718)
BKG Bio-tweet: From Normandy at 25; edited Gentleman’s Journal; trans. of Rabelais (racy), Don Quixote; became importer; expired in brothel
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Motteux cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and one Don Quixote cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, credited to Motteux's Don Quixote in the 1773 Dict. Two Motteux cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. indicated in bold italic below. The edition used by SJ is unknown. The first edition of the title below was 1700-1703. See Cervantes for editions (not this title) in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library.]
- The history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha. In Four Volumes. Written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Translated by Several Hands: And Publish'd by Peter Motteux. Adorn'd with New Sculptures. The Fourth Edition. Carefully Revised, and Compared with the Best Edition of the Original, Printed at Madrid by J. Ozell. [in 4 vol.], 1719, London: printed for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, J. Tonson, and W. Churchill; and are to be sold by J. Brotherton and W. Meadows at the Black Bull in Cornhill; discourteous (v.1 p.57; cited as Don Quixote in 1755 Dict.; cited as Motteux's Don Quixote in 1773 Dict.); employ (v.4, p.107); grumble (v.1 p.115); stitch (v.4 p.90)