Peñas arriba

Pereda, José María de, 1833-1906

Peñas arriba

By José M. de Pereda, member of the Spanish Academy

Madrid

Librería General de Victoriano Suárez

Obras completas de D. José María de Pereda

Not identified

1933

Madrid: Librería General de Victoriano Suárez (Preciados, 48), 1933

Spanish

No special print run or copy numbering indicated in the supplied images

516 p., [1] h.

Ornamental typographic initials

Octavo

18 × 12 cm

Not visible in the supplied images

Good-quality industrial paper, slightly satin-finished with light ivory tone

No visible watermarks observed through transmitted light in the supplied images

Spanish serif typography; sharp and even printing; title page printed in two colours (red and black)

Full mottled leather binding

Hazel brown and black

Spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt rolls, gilt fillets and black label with author and title in gilt; top edge stained; combed marbled endpapers in red, blue and black

Spine with five raised bands and black label lettered «PEREDA» and «PEÑAS ARRIBA» in gilt; head of spine rubbed

Mountain novel centred on rural Cantabrian life, traditions, landscape and the opposition between urban and traditional worlds, regarded as one of José María de Pereda’s most representative works

Volume XV of the Obras completas of José María de Pereda

Ninth edition stated on the title page

Includes the dedication “A la santa memoria de mi hijo Juan Manuel”

Non-publisher artistic period binding

Ownership stamp with the signature «Alfred Gallart» in violet ink on the half-title

Late nineteenth-century Spanish literature

Regionalist novel; costumbrismo; Cantabria; rural world; mountain literature

210

Good; sound binding with head of spine rubbed and small loss of leather; clean paper with slight oxidation spots and normal signs of use

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genís

Preserves marbled endpapers and period full leather binding; complete copy