El buscapié By Miguel de Cervantes; with the illustrative notes of Don Adolfo de Castro. Translated from the Spanish, with a life of the author, and some account of his works, by Thomasina Ross

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8vo. pp. xii, 235, [1]. Signatures: [A]6 B-K12 L10. Contains a frontispiece portrait. Stamped on title page verso “Bequest of Leonard Kebler to the Library of Congress September 1961.” Short story wrongly attributed to Miguel de Cervantes, actually written by the Cervantes scholar Adolfo de Castro (1823-1898, see Bib# 4103071/Fr# 1438 in this collection). First English edition of de Castro’s forgery by ‘Thomasina Ross’, an evident pseudonym that puzzled H.S. Ashbee, the premier English collector of Cervantes. See I. Gibson, The Erotomaniac. The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee (London, 2001), p. 142. It was exposed fully for the first time by Cayetano Alberto de la Barrera y Leirado, in El cachetero del Buscapié (1916, see Bib# 4103073/Fr# 1438 for the second edition, Santander, [1926]). Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.