Examen de ingenios para las ciencias

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1024
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Huarte de San Juan, Juan, ca. 1529-1588
Title
Examen de ingenios para las ciencias
Statement of responsibility
Por el Dr. Juan Huarte
Place of publication
Barcelona
Publisher
Biblioteca Clásica Española
Collection
Biblioteca Clásica Española
Printer
Establecimiento tipográfico-editorial de Daniel Cortezo y C.ª
Date
1884
Imprint (isbd)
Barcelona: Biblioteca Clásica Española; Establecimiento tipográfico-editorial de Daniel Cortezo y C.ª, 1884
Language
Spanish
Print run
Not identified
2. Physical description
Collation
Several preliminary leaves, approximately 309 pages
Illustrations
Ornamental initials; typographic decorative vignettes
Format
Octavo (8º)
Dimensions
Not determined
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial paper with slight oxidation and moderate acidity
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Clear typography; ornamental initials; decorative vignettes; well-preserved letterpress printing
3. Binding
Binding type
Decorated publisher’s stamped cloth binding
Colours
Black and gilt
Decoration
Complex neo-Gothic ornamentation with gilt tooling; framed central title; fantastic and geometric motifs
Spine
Decorated; stamped title; continuous ornamental fillets
4. Content
Content description
Includes preliminary notice, dedication to Philip II, prologue to the reader, index of chapters and the complete text of the philosophical and medical treatise on human intellectual capacities and their relationship with the sciences
5. General notes
Note 1
Nineteenth-century ornamented edition of one of the fundamental works of Spanish psychology and pedagogy
Note 2
Preserves the original decorated covers
Note 3
Includes the typographic emblem of the editor Daniel Cortezo y C.ª
Note 4
Complete and typographically clean copy
Note 5
Ornamental publisher’s binding representative of the Biblioteca Clásica Española
6. Subjects
Main subject
Spanish Renaissance philosophy and medicine
Subtopics
Psychology; pedagogy; theory of temperaments; human sciences; Spanish Golden Age; intelligence; history of Spanish thought
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1024
Condition
Very good; firm binding; clean interior; slight wear to edges and paper
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Preserves original ornamentation; complete pages; uniform typography; paper slightly browned with age