Hubert Dingwall: Quixotic fancies and English fairies
The late Hubert Dingwall began a lifetime of book collecting in 1935 with the purchase of a vellum bound copy of the second part only of a 1697 Antwerp edition of Don Quixote for one shilling and sixpence.
It took this novice bibliophile a great deal longer than he had imagined to find the first part, b…