Juan de la Cuesta (?-1627) was a Spanish printer known for printing (not publishing) the first editions of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605)[1] and the Novelas ejemplares (1613), by Miguel de Cervantes, as well as the works of other leading figures of Spain's Golden Age, such as Lope de Vega.
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Although he may previously have worked in Segovia,[2] and there was also a Juan de la Cuesta based in Alcalá de Henares in 1589[3] (although the latter may refer to another person[4]), it was not until 1599 that he started working in Madrid, taken on as manager of the printing shop owned by María Rodríguez de Rivalde,[5] widow of the printers Juan Íñiguez de Lequerica and Pedro Madrigal.[3]
An inventory carried out of the premises in September 1595,[6] just a few years before he was taken on to run the business for the woman who would become his mother-in-law,[7] referred to six presses, and the year they started printing the Quixote, 1604, it had twenty employees.[6]
He married María de Quiñones in 1604,[8] and in 1607 he left Madrid, abandoning his pregnant wife,[7] who would, after her husband's death, take over the business and become an important printer in her own right.[8]
Cuesta's print shop, at 87 Calle Atocha in Madrid, has been restored, and is now the headquarters of the Sociedad Cervantina, founded by Luis Astrana Marín in 1953.[9] It has a replica of Cuesta's printing press. It was officially opened as a museum by the king and queen of Spain in 1987.[who?][1]
References
edit- ^ a b "La casa museo de Cervantes abre sus puertas". El País. December 15, 1987. Archived from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
- ^ Jurado, Augusto (2007). Juan de la Cuesta impresor de El Quijote [sic] por encargo del librero Francisco de Robles y breves noticias de ambos y del autor de la obra Miguel de Cervantes. Madrid: Sociedad Cervantina. ISBN 9788461158386. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
- ^ a b Eisenberg, Daniel [in Spanish] (1983). "On Editing Don Quijote". Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 3 (1): 3–34. Archived from the original on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ^ Montero Reguera, José [in Spanish] (1997). El Quijote: o la crítica contemporánea. Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos. p. 27. ISBN 9788488333117.
- ^ Lucía Megías, José Manuel [in Spanish] (2011). Adquisición: Donaciones y compras: "Don Quijote de la Mancha" (PDF). Biblioteca Nacional de España. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
- ^ a b Michael, Ian (2001). "How Don Quixote came to Oxford: The two Bodleian copies of Don Quixote, Part I (Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1605)". In Griffin, Nigel; Griffin, Clive; Southworth, Eric; Thompson, Colin (eds.). Culture and Society in Habsburg Spain. Studies Presented to R.W. Truman by his Pupils and Colleagues on the Occasion of His Retirement. London: Tamesis Books. pp. 95–120, at pp. 98–99. ISBN 9781855660809. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
- ^ a b Martínez Pereira, Ana; Torné, Emilio (2008). "82 pliegos +1. Hacia la reconstrucción tipográfica de la princeps del Quijote". In Dotras Bravo, Dolores (ed.). "Tus obras los rincones de la tierra descubren": Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, Alcalá de Henares, 13 al 16 de diciembre de 2006. Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos. pp. 503–521, at p. 504. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
- ^ a b Gutiérrez, Lourdes; Lafuente, Purificación; Carrillo, Laura (2015). "Impresoras en Madrid s.XVII". Mujeres impresoras. Guía de recursos bibliográficos. Biblioteca Nacional de España. Archived from the original on March 5, 2021. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ^ La Sociedad Cervantina: un lugar lleno de historia, Madrid: Sociedad Cervantina, 2019, archived from the original on 2021-02-28, retrieved 2021-08-18 [dead link]