Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs

Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs (Cuesta) is a North American publishing house located in Newark, Delaware.

Thomas Albert Lathrop founded Cuesta in 1978 in order to provide a publishing outlet for manuscripts dealing with Spanish literary criticism, linguistics, and critical editions of classic literature.

[1] Lathrop named the publishing house after Juan de la Cuesta, the Madrid-based printer who most notably printed the first editions of Cervantes's Don Quijote (1605 and 1615).

The depiction from the title page of the 1605 printing of Don Quijote of the hooded falcon and water spaniel[2] encircled by the Latin motto "POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM" ("After darkness I hope for light") was adopted by Lathrop as the logo for Cuesta.

The first book published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs was a collection of fourteen papers presented at the Pomona College Symposium on Cervantes in 1978, called "Cervantes and the Renaissance," edited by Michael McGaha,[3] reviewed in the South Atlantic Review 1982.

Cover, "Cervantes and the Renaissance," edited by Michael McGaha, published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs in 1978. This cover design (brown leatherette cloth with a gold foil stamp of the image from the title page of the original 1605 printing of "Don Quijote") was designed by Tom Lathrop and used as the standard hard cover for all monographs published by Cuesta in the 20th century.
Cover, "Cervantes and the Renaissance," edited by Michael McGaha, published by Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs in 1978. This cover design (brown leatherette cloth with a gold foil stamp of the image from the title page of the original 1605 printing of "Don Quijote") was designed by Tom Lathrop and used as the standard hard cover for all monographs published by Cuesta in the 20th century.