Francisco de Robles

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Francisco de Robles was a bookseller in Madrid, whose shop was near the Puerta de Guadalajara. He was also a publisher; among his books are the first editions of Don Quixote (1605) and the Exemplary Novels (1613), by Miguel de Cervantes.

Robles contracted with the printer Juan de la Cuesta to print Don Quijote in his shop at Atocha 87, in Madrid, which is today a museum and cultural center, and home of the Sociedad Cervantina.

Robles was godfather of Cuesta's two children.{{cite book

|last=Fernández García

|first=Matías

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhJ1OaeGHQAC&pg=PA356

|title= Parroquia madrileña de San Sebastián: algunos personajes de su archivo'

|page=356

|location=Madrid

|isbn=848794339X

|publisher=Caparrós

|year=1995}}

Before moving to Madrid, his father, Blas de Robles, had published Cervantes' La Galatea in 1585 in nearby Alcalá de Henares,{{cite book

|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6KkS64FkKXUC&pg=PA503

|title="Tus obras los rincones de la tierra descubren": Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, Alcalá de Henares, 13 al 16 de diciembre de 2006

|location=Alcalá de Henares

|pages=503–521

|last1=Martínez Pereira

|first1=Ana

|last2=Torné

|first2=Emilio

|contribution=82 pliegos +1. Hacia la reconstrucción tipográfica de la princeps del Quijote

|editor-first=Dolores

|editor-last=Dotras Bravo

|publisher=Centro de Estudios Cervantinos

|year=2008

|access-date=2016-11-09