Note 16 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.

In Miguel de Cervantes, his life & works (London, 1895), p. 267, Mr. Henry Edward Watts, says of the Alcalá Galatea (1585) that "only one copy is known—in the possession of the Marqués de Salamanca." This is a mistake. Rius, who does not refer to the volume alleged to be in the Marqués de Salamanca's possession, specifies (op. cit., vol. i., pp. 100-101) five other copies. He could not be expected to know that there was yet another copy in England. English students of Cervantes were, however, aware of the fact fifteen years before the publication of Mr. Watts's work: see A Catalogue of the printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters, and engravings, collected by Henry Huth. With collations and bibliographical descriptions (London, 1880), vol. i., p. 282.