Juan de la Cuesta

Title page of the first edition of Cervantes' Don Quijote.

Juan de la Cuesta (died 1627) was a Spanish printer known for printing (not publishing) the first editions of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605) and there was also a Juan de la Cuesta based in Alcalá de Henares in 1589 (although the latter may refer to another person), it was not until 1599 that he started working in Madrid, taken on as manager of the printing shop owned by María Rodríguez de Rivalde, widow of the printers Juan Íñiguez de Lequerica and Pedro Madrigal. just a few years before he was taken on to run the business for the woman who would become his mother-in-law, referred to six presses, and the year they started printing the Quixote, 1604, it had twenty employees. and in 1607 he left Madrid, abandoning his pregnant wife, It has a replica of Cuesta's printing press. It was officially opened as a museum by the king and queen of Spain in 1987.