Comedias escogidas de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón: Ganar amigos, Examen de maridos, Los pechos privilegiados

Ruiz de Alarcón, Juan, 1581-1639

Comedias escogidas de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón: Ganar amigos, Examen de maridos, Los pechos privilegiados

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón

Barcelona

Daniel Cortezo y C.ª

Biblioteca Clásica Española

Establecimiento tipográfico editorial de Daniel Cortezo y C.ª

1887

Barcelona: Biblioteca Clásica Española, Daniel Cortezo y C.ª, editores, 1887

Spanish

Edition from the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection

1 volume (312 pages)

None

20 cm; octavo (8vo)

20 cm

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Nineteenth-century wood-pulp paper; usual slight oxidation

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Clear typography; wide margins; typical Cortezo composition

Original publisher’s binding

Red and black stamped cloth

Gilt ornamentation; “Per Industriam Augusta” emblem; characteristic collection design

Cloth spine with gilt and black stamping and decorative collection titles

Includes three classic comedies by Juan Ruiz de Alarcón: Ganar amigos, Examen de maridos and Los pechos privilegiados. Moral and social plays representative of the sober, rational and ethical theatre of the New Spanish dramatist

Nineteenth-century edition of the main moral and social comedies by Ruiz de Alarcón

Part of the Biblioteca Clásica Española series

Highly characteristic decorative publisher’s binding from the collection

Text printed in clear typography with wide margins

Preserves the original publisher’s binding

Moral and social theatre of the Spanish Golden Age

Comedy of manners; criticism of hypocrisy; analysis of marriage and friendship; portrait of seventeenth-century society; New Spanish literature within the Spanish tradition

1446

Very good; solid publisher’s binding; slightly oxidised paper

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Complete and well-preserved decorative publisher’s binding