Segunda antolojía poética (1898-1918)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 308
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 1881-1958
Title
Segunda antolojía poética (1898-1918)
Statement of responsibility
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Place of publication
Madrid
Publisher
Calpe
Series
Colección Universal
Printer
Imprenta Clásica Española
Date
1920
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid: Calpe, Colección Universal, 1920
Language
Spanish
Tirage
Not indicated; edition belonging to Calpe’s Colección Universal
2. Physical description
Collation
319 pages
Illustrations
Typographic vignette with printer’s device; no plates outside the text
Format
18 cm; octavo
Dimensions
18 cm
Paper type
Early twentieth-century industrial mechanical pulp paper, ivory-toned and lightly textured
Watermarks
No visible watermarks observed in the supplied images
Printing condition
Spanish serif typography; clean and properly inked printing
3. Binding
Binding type
Full leather binding
Colours
Hazel brown with marbled endpapers in cream, black and pink tones
Decoration
Spine with black title label and gilt decoration; handcrafted marbled endpapers
Spine
Smooth leather spine with simulated raised bands, gilt fillets and title label with author’s name and abbreviated title
4. Content
Content description
Poetic anthology prepared by Juan Ramón Jiménez gathering compositions written between 1898 and 1918; includes selections from major works of his early modernist and symbolist period, such as Arias tristes, Jardines lejanos, Pastorales, Baladas de primavera, Elegías and Poemas mágicos y dolientes, among others
5. General notes
Note 1
Edition included in Calpe’s well-known Colección Universal
Note 2
The author uses the spelling “antolojía”, characteristic of his personal orthographic proposals
Note 3
Final notes state that printing was completed in October 1922, although the title page retains the date 1920
Note 4
Includes an epistolary prologue addressed to Manuel G. Morente, director of the Colección Universal
Note 5
Later non-publisher binding of good handcrafted quality
6. Subjects
Main subject
Contemporary Spanish poetry
Subsubjects
Spanish modernism; symbolism; twentieth-century Spanish lyric poetry; poetic anthologies; Generation of 1914; intimate poetry
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
308
Condition
Good; solid binding with superficial wear and stains on the leather; paper with slight foxing and scattered oxidation
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves complete final notes and index of anthologised books; copy hand-bound in full leather