La ciencia española: (polémicas, proyectos y bibliografía)
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 160
Author
Menéndez y Pelayo, Marcelino, 1856-1912
Title
La ciencia española: (polémicas, proyectos y bibliografía)
Statement of responsibility
By D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo; with a prologue by D. Gumersindo Laverde Ruiz
Place of publication
Madrid
Publisher
Colección de Escritores Castellanos Críticos
Series
Colección de Escritores Castellanos Críticos; LII
Printer
Imprenta de A. Pérez Dubrull
Date
1887
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid: Colección de Escritores Castellanos Críticos, 1887
Language
Spanish
Tirage
Special numbered issue of 100 copies printed on laid rag paper; the described copy bears the manuscript number “176”
Collation
Various paginations
Illustrations
Typographic bordered title page printed in black and red; typographic vignettes and initials
Format
22 cm; large octavo
Dimensions
22 cm
Paper type
Good-quality laid rag paper corresponding to a special numbered issue
Watermarks
No identifiable watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
Nineteenth-century serif typography with careful printing and good typographic impression
Binding type
Luxury full grained leather binding
Colours
Black and gilt
Decoration
Gilt tools and fillets on covers and spine; gilt edges; decorated endpapers; silk ribbon marker
Spine
Spine with pronounced raised bands, decorated compartments and gilt titles
Content description
Fundamental work of Spanish scientific historiography devoted to debates on Spanish science, critical bibliography, intellectual history and Spanish cultural vindication; includes preliminary notice and abundant scholarly notes
Note 1
Third edition, revised and enlarged
Note 2
First volume of a work in three volumes
Note 3
Bibliophile copy on laid rag paper
Note 4
Includes geometric bookplate printed in red and black
Note 5
Later high-quality artistic binding
Main subject
Spanish intellectual history
Subsubjects
Spanish science; historiography; nineteenth-century Spanish thought; critical bibliography; scientific controversies; Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
Shelfmark
160
Condition
Very good; solid and firmly structured binding; very slight rubbing to corners and spine ends; clean and complete interior with slight natural oxidation
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Numbered copy on laid rag paper; preserves gilt edges and uniform luxury binding; slight show-through due to the quality and relative thinness of the paper