Tesoro de los romanceros y cancioneros españoles, históricos, caballerescos, moriscos y otros
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1466
Author
Ochoa, Eugenio de, 1815-1872
Title
Tesoro de los romanceros y cancioneros españoles, históricos, caballerescos, moriscos y otros
Statement of responsibility
Recopilados por Eugenio de Ochoa
Secondary author
Adicionado con el Poema del Cid y otros varios romances por J. R.
Place of publication
Barcelona
Publisher
Librería de los SS. A. Pons y Compañía
Series
Not identified
Printer
Imprenta de Don J. M. de Grau
Date
1840
Imprint (isbd)
Barcelona: Librería de los SS. A. Pons y Compañía; Imprenta de Don J. M. de Grau, 1840
Language
Spanish
Tirage
No special edition or limited issue stated
Collation
652 pages plus final index
Illustrations
Typographic vignette on title page and small engraved “FIN” device at end
Format
Approximately octavo
Dimensions
Not determined
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Mid-nineteenth-century industrial paper
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Letterpress printing with perceptible impression; composition in one and two columns according to sections
Binding type
Contemporary half-leather binding
Colours
Black and gilt
Decoration
Floral gilt tools on spine; handmade marbled endpapers
Spine
Spine decorated with the title “Tesoro de los Romanceros”
Content description
Anthology of Spanish romances and songbooks of historical, chivalric and Moorish themes. Includes preliminary discourse, critical notes and the Poema del Cid, constituting an important Romantic compilation of traditional Spanish literature
Note 1
Spanish Romantic edition of notable interest for the study of the traditional romancero
Note 2
Eugenio de Ochoa was a leading figure of Spanish Romanticism and of the recovery of medieval and popular literature
Note 3
Copy with decorative nineteenth-century binding and handmade marbled endpapers
Note 4
Shows printing show-through between pages and typographic characteristics consistent with Spanish production of the 1840s
Note 5
The binding reflects the bourgeois Romantic taste of the early Isabeline period
Main subject
Spanish literature and traditional romancero
Subsubjects
Historical romances; traditional Spanish poetry; songbooks; medieval Spanish literature; Spanish Romanticism; Poema del Cid; nineteenth-century literary compilations
Shelfmark
1466
Condition
Fair-good condition for a nineteenth-century work; humidity stains and scattered foxing; oxidation and marginal soiling; wear and rubbing to spine and boards; slight surface losses to the leather
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Apparently complete copy according to the reviewed images; preserves index, notes and ending of the Poema del Cid