Catalogue of Books Printed in Spain and of Spanish Books Printed Elsewhere in Europe Before 1601 Now in the British Library - Hardcover

Catalogue of Books printed in Spain and of Spanish Books printed elsewhere in Europe before 1601. Now in the British Library.

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Buchbeschreibung Cloth. Zustand: Gut. Second edition. VIII, 294 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband berieben, sonst sehr gut / binding rubbed, otherwise very good. - INTRODUCTION The Short-title Catalogue of Books printed in Spain and of Spanish Books printed elsewhere in Europe before 1601 now in the British Museum was the first of the Library s series of short-title catalogues of books in foreign languages of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Published in 1921, it bears on the titlepage the name of the compiler, Henry Thomas, D.Litt., and it has a prefatory note by the Principal Keeper, Alfred W. Pollard, dated 22 February 1921. This was followed by the French short-title catalogue in 1924, in which the compilers (Henry Thomas, assisted by A. F. Johnson and A. G. MacFarlane) are no longer named on the titlepage. Then came Thomas s Portuguese short-title catalogue in 1940 and the same author s Spanish-American list in 1944. After the Second World War the series was resumed with the Italian short-title catalogue in 1958 (with a Supplement in 1986), the German in 1962, and the Netherlands and Belgium in 1965. The first two catalogues of the series, Spanish and French, were decidedly experimental and hurried productions, so that no attempt was made either to include an index of printers and publishers or to identify the printers or place of printing of books which bear no imprints or colophons. In subsequent years, Sir Henry Thomas (he was knighted in 1946 and died in 1952), despite his arduous administrative burdens during the Second World War, culminating in his appointment as Principal Keeper of Printed Books from 1943 until his retirement in 1947, continued incessantly his researches on Spanish bibliography, and made numerous contributions to the subject in the form of articles and facsimile reprints of rare items accompanied by bibliographical introductions. In 1971 the British Museum published part X of its Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, in which full descriptions are given of all the Library s Spanish and Portuguese incunabula. This has enabled the present catalogue to dispense with those Haebler numbers which Thomas gave them in 1921 for the Spanish incunabula. But even between 1971 and 1985 the British Museum (the British Library since 1973) has acquired twelve more Spanish incunabula, including the only fifteenth-century imprint from Tortosa and the earliest dated books printed in Seville, Valencia and Saragossa. These came mostly from the renowned Broxbourne Library of the late Albert Ehrman. In 1978 Cambridge University Press published F. J. Norton s monumental work A descriptive catalogue of printing in Spain and Portugal 1501 1520, in which detailed descriptions of 1369 Spanish and 43 Portuguese editions of those years are provided. References to Norton numbers are given throughout the present catalogue for the British Library s holdings. It may be said therefore that the bibliography of printing in Spain and Portugal from circa 1470 to 1520 has now been thoroughly covered, and although the British Library still owns copies of far fewer than half of these totals, there can be very few Iberian presses of the period which are not represented in its collections. Every effort has been made to identify the printers of all those books in the British Library which were produced in Spain or in Spanish without imprint, many of these being unique copies as far as is known; and every effort has also been made to date them as accurately as possible. Full indexes have been provided of printers and booksellers, and there are also separate indexes of towns, both within and outside Spain. Signature collations and certain explanatory footnotes have been added only in those cases where it was felt that such information would help the reader to identify the edition of the copy in hand, or else to justify the ascription made to a particular town or printer. The rules of cataloguing in the British Library, particularly with regard to anonymous books, have been in recent years considerably modified. The result is that in the present catalogue, as in the General Catalogue, a number of works will no longer be found under the same headings as they were in 1921, since these headings are now obsolete. For instance, a work entitled Relación de las cosas de España will now be found under Relación if it has no author, not under Spain. Appendix ; and such headings as Dictionaries and Ephemerides have been abolished. Certain well-known anonymous works of literature, however, especially chivalresque romances, will still be found under their accepted and familiar headings. ISBN 071230150X Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 782. Artikel-Nr. 1197868

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