Pepita Jiménez
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 209
Author
Valera, Juan, 1824-1905
Title
Pepita Jiménez
Statement of responsibility
Juan Valera
Place of publication
Madrid
Publisher
Biblioteca Nueva
Series
Obras escogidas de Juan Valera
Printer
Talleres ESPASA-CALPE, S. A.
Date
1934
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1934
Language
Spanish
Tirage
No special print run or copy numbering indicated
Collation
241 pages
Illustrations
Ornamental black illustrations; illustrated frontispiece
Format
Large octavo
Dimensions
Approximately 19 cm
Typographic signatures
Not observed in the supplied images
Paper type
Toned industrial paper with even ageing
Watermarks
No visible watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
Serif typography; clean and well-contrasted typographic printing
Binding type
Half leather binding
Colours
Dark green and marbled tones
Decoration
Spine with raised bands and gilt fillets; marbled paper boards; decorated endpapers
Spine
Dark green leather spine with stamped title and gilt decoration
Content description
Psychological and costumbrista novel set in Andalusia, centred on the sentimental and religious conflict of a seminarian in love with Pepita Jiménez; one of Juan Valera’s most representative works
Note 1
Copy belonging to the Obras escogidas of Juan Valera
Note 2
Includes decorative illustrations in classical style
Note 3
Uniform decorative period binding
Note 4
Preserves decorative marbled endpapers
Main subject
Nineteenth-century Spanish literature
Subsubjects
Psychological novel; Andalusian costumbrismo; realist fiction; religious conflict; love and morality
Shelfmark
209
Condition
Good overall condition; slight scattered foxing and oxidation; solid and well-preserved binding
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Decorative half leather copy with good aesthetic presence