España: ensayo de historia contemporánea

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 712
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Madariaga, Salvador de, 1886-1978
Title
España: ensayo de historia contemporánea
Statement of responsibility
Por Salvador de Madariaga
Place of publication
Madrid; Barcelona; Buenos Aires
Publisher
Compañía Ibero-Americana de Publicaciones, S. A. (C.I.A.P.)
Collection
Not identified
Printer
Compañía General de Artes Gráficas
Date
1931
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid; Barcelona; Buenos Aires: Compañía Ibero-Americana de Publicaciones, S. A. (C.I.A.P.), 1931
Language
Spanish
Print run
Not identified
2. Physical description
Collation
319 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
Large octavo (8º) approx.
Dimensions
Not determined
Paper type
Good quality industrial paper; slight natural ageing and scattered minor foxing
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Serif typography; single-colour letterpress printing; clean and regular composition
3. Binding
Binding type
Period half-leather binding with corners
Colours
Black and garnet
Decoration
Spine with gilt fillets, tooling and titles; garnet cloth boards; marbled endpapers in green and violet tones
Spine
Black half-leather spine with false raised bands and gilt tooling; slight rubbing from use
4. Content
Content description
Historical and political essay on contemporary Spain from the nineteenth century to the beginnings of the Second Republic; discusses social, political, regional and international issues of modern Spain
5. General notes
Note 1
Originally published in English in 1930 and later adapted into Spanish by the author himself
Note 2
Includes chapters devoted to the Catalan question, the army, the Church, Morocco and Hispanic-Americanism
Note 3
Salvador de Madariaga was a diplomat, historian and one of the most important Spanish intellectuals of the twentieth century
Note 4
Copy preserved in decorative period binding
Note 5
Copy with initials “A.G.” gilt on the spine
Note 6
Complete and properly preserved copy
6. Subjects
Main subject
Contemporary history of Spain
Subtopics
Spanish politics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Second Republic; Catalan question; political thought; social history; historical essay
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
712
Condition
Good; solid binding; slight rubbing and occasional small foxing spots
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Decorative marbled endpapers; complete copy