Editing Don Quixote (section)

==List of English translations==
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#[[Thomas Shelton (translator)|Thomas Shelton]] (1612 & 1620)
#[[John Phillips (author)|John Phillips]] (1687) – the nephew of [[John Milton]]
#[[John Stevens (translator)|Captain John Stevens]] (1700) (revision of [[Thomas Shelton (translator)|Thomas Shelton]])
#Ned Ward (1700), ''(The) Life & Notable Adventures of Don Quixote merrily translated into Hudibrastic Verse''
#[[Pierre Antoine Motteux]] (1700)
#[[John Ozell]] (1719) (revision of Pierre Antoine Motteux)
#[[Charles Jervas]] (1742)
#Dr. [[Tobias Smollett]] (1755) (revision of [[Charles Jervas]])
#George Kelly (1769) (considered as another revision of Pierre Antoine Motteux)
#Charles Henry Wilmot (1774)
#[[Mary Smirke]] with engravings by [[Robert Smirke (painter)|Robert Smirke]] (1818)
#[[Pierre Antoine Motteux]], edited by [[John Gibson Lockhart]] (1822)
#[[Alexander James Duffield]] (1881)
#[[John Ormsby (translator)|John Ormsby]] (1885). [https://archive.org/stream/TheIngeniousGentlemanDonQuixoteOfLaMancha/The%20Ingenious%20Gentleman%20Don%20Quixote%20of%20La%20Mancha#mode/2up The original version], available free on the [[Internet Archive]], is to be preferred to the Wikisource and similar versions, which do not include Ormsby's careful notes and with his Introduction much abbreviated.<ref name=Eisenberg/>
#[[Henry Edward Watts]] (1888)
#Robinson Smith (1910)
#[[Samuel Putnam]] ([[Modern Library]], 1949)
#[[J. M. Cohen]] ([[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 1950)
#[[Walter Starkie]] (1964)
#Joseph Ramon Jones and Kenneth Douglas (1981) (revision of Ormsby). ({{ISBN|978-0393090185|0393090183}}) - [[Norton Critical Edition]]
#[[Burton Raffel]] ([[W. W. Norton|Norton]], 1996)
#[[John D. Rutherford|John David Rutherford]] ([[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 2000)
#[[Edith Grossman]] (2003)
#O. M. Brack Jr. (2003) (revision of the 1755 [[Tobias Smollett]] revision of [[Charles Jervas]])
#[[:es:Thomas Albert Lathrop|Thomas Albert Lathrop]] (2005, Second Edition: 2007)
#James H. Montgomery (2006)
#E.C. Riley (2008) (revision of [[Charles Jervas]])
#Gerald J. Davis (2011)
#Diana de Armas Wilson (2020) (revision of [[Burton Raffel]])
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Reviewing 26 out of the current 28 English translations as a whole in 2008, Daniel Eisenberg stated that there is no one translation ideal for every purpose but expressed a preference for those of Putnam and the revision of Ormsby's translation by Douglas and Jones.<ref name=Eisenberg>{{cite journal
|title=The Text of ''Don Quixote'' as Seen by its Modern English Translators
|journal=Cervantes: Journal of the Cervantes Society of America
|volume=26
|year=2006
|first=Daniel
|last=Eisenberg
|authorlink=:es:Daniel Eisenberg
|pages=103–126
|doi=10.3138/cervantes.26.1.103
|s2cid=189378056
|url=https://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics-f06/eisenbergsf06.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011155545/http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/artics-f06/eisenbergsf06.pdf |archive-date=2008-10-11 |url-status=live}}</ref>