(025591) Byron, William. Cervantes: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. 583 pages. Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. DJ has some light edgewear and one small chip. Claims to be the first full-scale biography of Cervantes to use modern scholarship and up-to-date research in an attempt to show the life of Cervantes as it really was. Cervantes (1547-161 6) , Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, isthe most celebrated figure in Spanish literature and the author of Don Quixote. ISBN: 0385002793 (Cervantes, Saavedra)