Why Franklin Library "Don Quixote" is not completed?
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By chance I've purchased Franklin Library "Don Quixote" in its 100 Greatest Books of All Time series, with the title of "Don Quixote De La Mancha" several months ago, it attracted me by the full leather bound and with Gustave Dore illustrations, but when I finished reading it, I sadly found that was only the Part I, 52 chapters, which was originally published in 1605, the Part II, published in 1615, was not included.
I have checked other series of Franklin Library, including Franklin/Oxford (1 volume), GBWW 25 years (2 volumes) that also include "Don Quixote", but both of them are with the same title "Don Quixote De La Mancha", and only cover the Part I, 52 chapters.
As a comparism, I checked the Folio Society LE and Penguin Classics edition, both of them come with the completed two parts, which make me very confused, why Franklin Library, as a premium publisher at that time, put a uncompleted book in all its reputed full leather bound series?
I have checked other series of Franklin Library, including Franklin/Oxford (1 volume), GBWW 25 years (2 volumes) that also include "Don Quixote", but both of them are with the same title "Don Quixote De La Mancha", and only cover the Part I, 52 chapters.
As a comparism, I checked the Folio Society LE and Penguin Classics edition, both of them come with the completed two parts, which make me very confused, why Franklin Library, as a premium publisher at that time, put a uncompleted book in all its reputed full leather bound series?
