Colección de sainetes, tanto impresos como inéditos

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1463
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Cruz, Ramón de la Cruz, 1731-1794
Title
Colección de sainetes, tanto impresos como inéditos
Statement of responsibility
De D. Ramón de la Cruz; con un discurso preliminar de Don Agustín Durán, y los juicios críticos de Martínez de la Rosa, Signorelli, Moratín y Hartzenbusch
Place of publication
Madrid
Publisher
Gabinete Literario; Librería Europea de Hidalgo
Series
Not identified
Printer
Imprenta de Yenes, calle de Segovia, 6
Date
1843
Imprint (isbd)
Madrid: Gabinete Literario, calle del Príncipe, núm. 25; Librería Europea de Hidalgo, calle de la Montera, núm. 12; Imprenta de Yenes, calle de Segovia, 6, 1843
Language
Spanish
Tirage
Original Madrid edition of 1843
2. Physical description
Collation
2 volumes; pagination confirmed to page 689 in volume II
Illustrations
None
Format
20 cm; small octavo
Dimensions
20 cm
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Rag paper with foxing and ink show-through
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Roman type; single-column text; clear and even impression
3. Binding
Binding type
Contemporary handcrafted binding
Colours
Black leather spine; boards in dark green marbled paper or cloth
Decoration
Gilt tools on spine
Spine
Leather spine with handwritten label
4. Content
Content description
Collection of sainetes by Ramón de la Cruz in two volumes. Volume I includes a preliminary discourse by Agustín Durán, critical essays and a first group of theatrical works. Volume II contains the continuation of the plays, including Los novios espantados, La vieja engañada, El Caballero de Merlín, La pobre hipócrita y avarienta, La Secta and El heredero loco; includes final index
5. General notes
Note 1
Complete original Madrid edition of 1843
Note 2
Both volumes printed by Imprenta de Yenes
Note 3
Homogeneous and stable set; intact paper without text loss
Note 4
Owner's binding, not publisher's binding
Note 5
Includes critical essays by prominent nineteenth-century authors and scholars
6. Subjects
Main subject
Eighteenth-century Spanish theatre
Subsubjects
Spanish sainetes; Spanish popular literature; costumbrista theatre; Ramón de la Cruz; Spanish dramaturgy; nineteenth-century theatrical collections
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
1463
Condition
Good; paper with foxing; firm binding
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Old handwritten label in volume I