Novelistas del siglo XVII

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1453
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Various seventeenth-century authors
Title
Novelistas del siglo XVII
Statement of responsibility
Con una advertencia preliminar
Place of publication
Barcelona
Publisher
Biblioteca Clásica Española, Daniel Cortezo y C.ª
Series
Biblioteca Clásica Española
Printer
Establecimiento tipográfico-editorial de Daniel Cortezo y C.ª
Date
1884
Imprint (isbd)
Barcelona: Biblioteca Clásica Española, Daniel Cortezo y C.ª, 1884
Language
Spanish
Tirage
Edition of the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection
2. Physical description
Collation
[4], V, 355 pages
Illustrations
Typographic ornaments and decorative title page
Format
20 cm; octavo (8vo)
Dimensions
20 cm
Typographic signatures
Not verified from the supplied images
Paper type
Nineteenth-century industrial wood-pulp paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman type; clear and uniform printing; includes typographic ornaments and decorative title page
3. Binding
Binding type
Original publisher’s binding
Colours
Black and cream
Decoration
Cover stamped with complex geometric and vegetal ornamentation of Neo-Gothic inspiration; central title “Novelistas”
Spine
Decorated publisher’s cloth; solid structure
4. Content
Content description
Collective volume of Spanish short fiction from the seventeenth century edited within the Biblioteca Clásica Española. Includes a preliminary notice and several novels by Spanish Baroque authors, among them works attributed to Gregorio Guadaña, Diego de Agreda y Vargas and Juan Pérez de Montalbán. Gathers courtly, moral and entertaining novels representative of Spanish Baroque prose
5. General notes
Note 1
Literary edition of patrimonial character published by Daniel Cortezo
Note 2
Part of the Biblioteca Clásica Española collection
Note 3
Preserves the original decorative publisher’s binding
Note 4
Includes general table of contents and editorial preliminary notice
Note 5
Representative copy of nineteenth-century Spanish historicist re-editions
6. Subjects
Main subject
Spanish short novel of the Golden Age
Subsubjects
Spanish Baroque literature; courtly narrative; moral novels; seventeenth-century prose; nineteenth-century literary collections; Spanish classical authors
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1453
Condition
Good; slight oxidation and marginal stains typical of the paper; stable binding
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Particularly decorative stamped publisher’s cover; complete and well-preserved interior