Colección de las cartas que bajo el título de Filósofo Rancio escribió en los años de 1811, 1812, 1813 y 1814
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 1770
Author
Alvarado, Francisco, 1756-1814
Title
Colección de las cartas que bajo el título de Filósofo Rancio escribió en los años de 1811, 1812, 1813 y 1814
Statement of responsibility
By the Reverend Father Fr. Francisco Alvarado, of the Order of Preachers
Place of publication
Gerona
Publisher
Antonio Oliva, printer to His Majesty
Series
Not identified
Printer
Antonio Oliva; distribution: Oficina de Piferrer, Plaza del Ángel, Barcelona
Date
1824
Number of volumes
4 volumes
Imprint (isbd)
Gerona: Antonio Oliva, printer to His Majesty, 1824; distribution: Oficina de Piferrer, Plaza del Ángel, Barcelona
Language
Spanish
Tirage
Complete edition in four volumes published in Gerona in 1824
Collation
4 volumes; each volume between 350 and 450 pages; total approximately 1500-1700 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
20-22 cm; octavo (8vo)
Dimensions
20-22 cm
Typographic signatures
Not verified in the supplied images
Paper type
Laid paper with homogeneous oxidation
Watermarks
Not visible in the supplied images
Printing condition
Early round type; single-column text; pre-academic orthography
Binding type
Nineteenth-century Spanish calf binding
Colours
Marbled boards; leather spines
Decoration
Gilt tools on spines; some reused spines
Spine
Leather with gilt decoration; solid structure; reused inscription “TASSO / GERUSAL. LIBERO.” on some volumes
Content description
Complete collection of the letters signed as “El Filósofo Rancio”, written between 1811 and 1814. Political and religious work of counterrevolutionary and anti-Jansenist character, representative of conservative Spanish doctrinal thought in the early nineteenth century
Note 1
Complete work in four volumes
Note 2
Rare edition in homogeneous set
Note 3
Non-publisher nineteenth-century artisanal binding
Note 4
Laid paper with complete 1824 impression
Note 5
Distribution documented in Barcelona by the Oficina de Piferrer
Main subject
Spanish political and religious thought of the nineteenth century
Subsubjects
Catholic Church; doctrinal defence; Jansenism; religious controversies; Spanish religious literature; political correspondence; Spanish conservative thought
Shelfmark
1770
Condition
Good; firm paper; homogeneous oxidation; solid binding
Provenance
Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Partially reused spines; complete and homogeneous set