Juanita la Larga
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 242
Author
Valera, Juan, 1824-1905
Title
Juanita la Larga
Statement of responsibility
By Juan Valera
Place of publication
Madrid
Publisher
Librería de Fernando Fé
Series
Not identified
Printer
Est. tip. de Ricardo Fé, Olmo 4
Date
1896
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid: Librería de Fernando Fé, 1896
Language
Spanish
Tirage
Not indicated
Collation
322 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
19 cm; octavo
Dimensions
Approximately 19 cm
Paper type
Late nineteenth-century industrial mechanical pulp/alpha paper
Watermarks
No visible watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
Spanish serif typography; sharp and even printing
Binding type
Half leather binding
Colours
Light brown and dark red
Decoration
Spine with raised bands, gilt fillets and red title labels; boards decorated with vegetal relief motifs; marbled endpapers
Spine
Brown leather spine with double red title labels and gilt tooling
Content description
Realist novel set in Andalusia centred on the figure of Juanita, dealing with social relations, local politics and Spanish costumbrismo at the end of the nineteenth century
Note 1
First edition published by Fernando Fé
Note 2
Includes dedication to the Marqués de la Vega de Armijo
Note 3
Preserves the original marbled endpapers of the binding
Note 4
Private period binding, not publisher-issued
Note 5
Complete copy
Main subject
Nineteenth-century Spanish literature
Subsubjects
Realist novel; Andalusian costumbrismo; Spanish narrative; Bourbon Restoration; nineteenth-century Spanish society
Shelfmark
242
Condition
Good; solid binding; damp stains and scattered foxing, especially on the final leaves
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Shows moderate wear to spine and edges; interior complete and correctly preserved