John Ormsby (1829–1895) was a nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish translator. He is most famous for his 1885 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha, perhaps the most scholarly and accurate English translation of the novel up to that time. It is so precise that Samuel Putnam, who published his own English translation of the novel in 1949, faults Ormsby for duplicating Cervantes' pronouns so closely that the meaning of the sentences sometimes becomes confusing. (From Wikipedia)
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Ormsby, John, 1829-1895, trans.: Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895, trans.: The History of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, illust. by Gustave Doré
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895, trans.: The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (2 volumes, with an extensive introduction and notes by the translator; New York and Boston: T. Y. Crowell and Co., n.d.), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, illust. by Adolphe Lalauze
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Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: Autumn rambles in North Africa. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: Don Quixote (Century, 1907), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: Don Quixote of la Mancha (Grosset & Dunlap, 1930), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: Don Quixote of La Mancha (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1906), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: Don Quixote of la Mancha (Grosset & Dunlap, 1938), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: Don Quixote, the ingenious gentleman of La Mancha (Heritage press, 1950), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Edy Legrand (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (D. Nutt;, 1898), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Constable; ;, 1898), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Macmillan ;, 1885), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (T.Y. Crowell, 1896), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Adolphe Lalauze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Harvard, 1893), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha (Ginn & Co., 1893), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Mabel F. Wheaton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha (Dodd, Mead and company, 1899), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha (Dodd, Mead and company, 1887), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha (Dodd, Mead and company, 1896), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Harvard Pub. Co., 1891), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, George Cruikshank, and Adolphe Lalauze (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha (Dodd, Mead and Co., 1901), also by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The poem of the Cid, a translation from the Spanish. (G. E. Stechert & co., 1915), also by approximately 1043-1099 Cid (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ormsby, John, 1829-1895: The poem of the Cid, a translation from the Spanish (Longmans, Green, and co., 1879), also by approximately 1043-1099 Cid (page images at HathiTrust)
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