joaquin ibarra, 1725-1785: a tentative list of holdings

joaquin ibarra, 1725-1785: a tentative list of holdings

JOAQ^UIN IBARRA, 1725-1785: A TENTATIVE
LIST OF HOLDINGS IN THE REFERENCE
DIVISION OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY
H. G.
WHITEHEAD
printers in eighteenth-century Spain are commonly regarded as the leaders of
the revival in printing standards in that country. Of the three, Joaquin Ibarra, Benito
Monfort, and Antonio de Sancha, it is Ibarra who is generally considered to be
pre-eminent.
He was born in Saragossa on 19 July 1725, the son of Juan Ibarra and Mariana
Marin, baptized on the following day in the church of S. Maria Magdalena and given
the names Braulio Elias Joaquin Benito. Of his earliest years nothing is known, but in
1735, his elder brother ManueP arrived in Saragossa from Madrid, where he had worked
as a compositor in the printing works of Antonio Marin, his maternal uncle. Manuel
had just been nominated printer to the University of Cervera, founded a few years
previously in 1717, and was on his way to take up his new post. Joaquin went with
him as an apprentice and stayed in the university town for seven years, learning his
trade and gaining as much education as he could. The two brothers parted in 1742,
when Joaquin moved (though where to remains mysterious) whilst Manuel stayed on
at the University until 1749. It has been suggested that Joaquin went to Madrid- to
work with his uncle Marin during the years 1742-53. However, in this latter year he
reappeared, w^ith his own printing shop in the Calle de las Urosas, from where he
issued, in that same year, three works, none of which, unfortunately, is in the British
Library.^
THREE
The productions of this press show a conscious effort to restore to Spanish printing
the high standards of a previous age. In this, Ibarra was so successful that he is justly
ranked alongside Baskerville, Didot, and Bodoni as one of the outstanding printers of
the eighteenth century.
His technical skill as a printer has been assessed by others,"^ and it may suffice to
mention here that he improved the quality of his inks quite independently, it seems,
from what was being done elsewhere, smoothed and glazed his paper, and above all
ran an efficient shop, to enter which was the highest honour to which an apprentice
printer could aspire. Ibarra rapidly acquired a reputation as an instructor, and when
years later a former pupil, Juan Jose de Sigiienza y Vera, published a little book on
printing, he dedicated it to his former master's granddaughter, Maria Ifiiguez e Ibarra,
and with touching loyalty acknowledged his debt.^
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At the height of his career Ibarra was official printer to Charles III, to the Archbishop
of l\)ledi), and to the Real Academia de la Lengua. The King, indeed, played an
important part in the revival of printing standards in Spain. As a youth he had been
instructed by Ibarra's uncle Marin, and had done some amateur printing, whilst still
an Infante de Espatia and before going to Naples. Now, after his accession to the
Spanish throne in 1759, he granted various privileges to the printing confraternity. He
excused them from military service {Real Cedula of 17 March 1763). He exempted them
from tax on vermilion (Real Cedula of 22 March 1763). The state monopoly on lead
was eased to favour punch-cutters and type-casters (Real Cedula of 5 January 1775).
And, perhaps most important of all, he authorized setting up the Real Compaiiia de
Impresores y Libreros de! Reino (Real Cedula of 24 July 1763), of which company
Ibarra himself was a founder member. Ibarra's style of printing has been described by
some as ^revolutionary\ which is not far from the truth. As late as 1744^54. type used
in Spain was often old-fashioned, as can be seen in the products of the Mexican press
of the eminent printer Eguiara y Eguren, who bought at this time from Spain the type
to print his well-known Bihliotheca Mexicana.
Ibarra died in 1785, but the press survived under the successive direction of his
widow,*' sons, and grandson until 1836, when it was sold.^ The Secretary of the Academy
reported Ibarra's death on 15 November 1785, and a short obituary notice by Clavijo
y Fajardo (the translator of Buffon) appeared in volume 3 of the Mercurio de Espana,
but apart from that his death went unnoticed. Nor was there any fitting commemoration
of Spain's greatest printer until 1923, when the Municipality of Madrid placed a plaque
on the wall of the house at no. 13 Calle de Nunez de Arce.
The Ibarra press issued some 2,500 titles. Of those issued in Ibarra's lifetime the
follow ing are noteworthy: the bilingual edition of Sallust, La Conjuracwn de Catihna
y la Guerra de Jugurta (1772); the Royal Academy edition of Don Quijote (1780); the
Breviarium Gothicum ad usum Sacelli Mozarabum (i775); ^^^ Nicolas Antonio, Biblwtheca
Hispana Nova (1783-8), in two volumes, the work having been completed, along with
the two volumes for the Biblwtheca Hispana Vetus (1788), by his widow.
All these editions are in the British Library, and most in more than one copy. There
are, for instance, three copies of the Sallust. The first was sent, presumably by the
translator Gabriel Antonio de Borbon, the second son of Charles III, to George III,
and now forms part of the King's Library. The second copy was sent to Grenville by
his nephew Henry Williams Wynn. A note by Grenville in this copy states 'First edition
and first impression. A present from Hen; Williams Wynn on his return from Spain,
1809. This translation was made by F. Perez, tutor to the Prince. Mr Waddelove,
chaplain to the English Ambassador, Ld Grantham, procured the types from the
Baskerville font.'^ The third copy came from the library of the Revd. C. M. Cracherode.
Updike regarded this book as Ibarra's masterpiece and draws a parallel between it and
some of the earlier productions of Bodoni. The title-page is engraved, and there are
engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials designed by Mariano Salvador de Maella
(later, in 1799, to become, together with Goya, first Court painter) and others (figs, i, 2).
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CONJURACION
DE CATIIINA
Y
.A
A
DE TUGURTA
ALUSTIO
CRISPO.
Fig. I. Sallust, La Conjuracwn de Catilina (Madrid, 1772), title-page. 680.i.6
LA CONJURACION
DE CATILINA
POR
CAYO
SALUSTIO'CRISPO.
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no f\i>Lir /j liJ.i cn si/cncio conto /js
hcstuis , ^1 nuicncs natuntlcza crio mLi hcn\t If sicri\is Jc .<.ti vicntrc. Nuc.s'tro ivijiV' // ficidKii/cs conststi'n toJits cn c/ ij/u/no //
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*1- - . > M^!Ts liomincs, qui V.."J.- SIUdiiii prri-siare CL'iens a m m.ilihiis , Miniir.a o(x.' niit
d o c c i , nc \it.iin silcniio tiauw-Tint.
Vi-lr»i |x.cr.ri ; q,,T n.-.,,irn prona,
aiquc vcniri ulx'dicnii.T tiiixit. Si.\'
(Hr.ir.1 iiiniiii \ is ill animo (.-t . .
pore siia c\t. AiiimJ iriiiHTio , I'ur)>i)ris M.Tviiio m.iyii uiirnur. ;i!tcm m nobi>. cum D i s , alicnim r u m
belluiscunjiiunc Cii. O u o i n i h i TLC-
Fig. 2. Sallust, La Conjuractdn de Catilina (Madrid, 1772), page i. 680.i.6
EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO
DON QUIXOTE
D E LA M A N C H A
COMl'UESTO
POR MIGUEL DE CERvANTIiS SAAVEDRA.
N U P. VA E D I C i O N
CORRCGI f>.V
rOR LA REAL ACADEMIA IiSl'ASOLA.
PARTE PRIMERA.
T O M O I.
CON SITRRIOR I>ERMISO:
IN
H \11R11>
Ftg. J. Cervantes, Ei higemoso Hidalgo Don
Quixote de la Mancha {Madrid, 1780), vol. i,
title-page. 673.1^.13
Equally well known and as highly prized is the Academy edition of Dou
Q ,
which Ibarra printed in 1780. This splendid four-volume edition was planned by Vicente
de los Rios and Francisco Antonio de Angulo, the Secretary to the Academy. A minute
dated 11 March 1773 had suggested the issue ofa quarto edition with original engravings
by members of the Academia de San Fernando, 'Una impresion correcta y magnifica
de Don Quijote; en papel marquilla, [i.e. demy, ijy'x22\"]
y en tomos de quarto,
con laminas originales . . . y con los demas adornos correspondientes para que en todas
sus partes tenga esta edicion la perfeccion posible.' The text was collated carefully with
the editions of 1605,^ 1608, and 1615. Special paper from the Guarro mills in Catalonia
was ordered and a new type cast from matrices made in Madrid by Jeronimo Gil for
the press of the Biblioteca Real. It was an edition of about 1,500 copies: four are in
the British Library (figs. 3, 4). Two years later Ibarra produced a charming reading
edition in octavo, again in four volumes, and with many plates. The British Library
has two copies of this edition, one from the library of George III, the other, imperfect
in that it lacks the plates, from the Ashbee Collection.
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PRIMERA PARTE
DEL I N G E N I O S O
HIDALGO
DON QUIXOTE
DE LA MANCHA.
CAPITULO
One
TRIMERO.
:j dc ia condicion , y cxercicio dei famoso hidaigo Don Quixote dc ia Manciia.
I n un Lugar Jc la Mancha, dc cuyo nombre
no t-juicro acordartnc, no ha mucho ticmpo
>^
c]uc \ i \ i a un hidalgo dc los de lanza en astillcto, aJarga antigua , rocin llaco, y galgo LorrcJor. Lhia olla dc algo mas vaca quc
carnero , salpicon las mas nochcs , duclos y qucbrantos
los sabados , lantejas los vicrnes, algun palomino dc anadiJura los Joniingos consumian las tres partes Jc su hacienJa. L\l resro dcUa conclulan sayo Je vclarrc , calzai
dc \ulludo para las fiestas con sus pantuflos dc Io mesm o , y lob dias dc cntre scmana sc honraba con su vclloTOM. I .
Fig. 4. Cervantes, Fl fngenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Madrid, 1780), vol. i, page i,
673.k. 13
Henry Swinburne, who visited Spain in 1775 and 1776, refers to tbe Ibarra Quixote:
*There is now an edition of Don Quixote with prints taken from original drawings of
the dresses and landscapes of the country, which has employed all the best engravers
for some time past . . . Printing seems of late to be the branch they most excel in . . .'"^
And the most renowned of all English travellers in the Peninsula, Richard Ford, roundly
declared: 'One word on the different and best editions of this Shakespeare of Spain.
The works of Cervantes especially his capo d' opera "Don Quixote" have gone through
many. Happy the man whose eye can glance on a goodly set of the earliest . . . the
finest, that ''de lujo" was published for the Academy of Madrid, by Ibarra, 4 Vols.
folio, 1780 and no grand library should be without it.'^'
The Bibliotheca Hispana I etiis, and its companion the Bihiiothcca Hispatia Nova,
compiled by Nicolas Antonio, were first issued in Rome, where the author was then
living, during the years 1672-96. The work, in four volumes, is a bibliography ot Spanish
authors from the time of Augustus the first Emperor to the year 1684 (when Antonio
died), and in spite of errors and omissions has always been regarded as ot fundamental
importance, 'a work of European fame, still in active use', to quote Sir Thomas Kendrick
(St. James In Spain, London, i960, p. 146), and an outstanding work of Spanish
bibliography.
The two volumes ofthe Nova were issued with the Ibarra imprint in 1783 and 1788
(fig. 5), and both volumes of the Vetus in 1788, those of this latter date having been
issued with the imprint of Ibarra's successors. Although the bibliographies such as
Brunet, Palau, and Simon Diaz accept the 1783 imprint, the British Library's General
Catalogue of printed books questions it, with the note 'The date 1783 on the title-page
of tom. I is a printer's error for 1788'. This forthright statement (which must surely
be corrected) is accompanied by no statement of authority in the Department's
manuscript records, and it is difficult to accept it at its face value, especially as the
colophon repeats the earlier date. The imprint states quite clearly: 'Matriti, apud
Joachimum de Ibarra Typographum Regium MDCCLXXXIIF, and the colophon:
'Matriti, apud Joachimum de Ibarra, Anno MDCCLXXXIIF. By contrast, the imprint
ofthe second volume (in which there is no colophon) reads: 'Matriti, apud Viduam et
Heredes Joachimi de Ibarra Typographi Regii MDCCLXXXVIII'. In a work generally
regarded as one of Ibarra's finest and noblest efforts, such a glaring misprint on the
title-page, repeated in the colophon, would hardly have passed unnoticed. It is, I imagine,
possible that the first volume was not issued until volume 2 was ready, by which time
Ibarra had died, and the original imprint and colophon were allowed to stand.
While Ibarra was printer to the Archbishop of Toledo he issued the Mozarabic
Breviary of 1775 ('Apud Joachimum Ibarra S.C.R.M. & Dignit. Archiep. Typogr'.), the
only earlier edition of which was printed by Hagembach in Toledo (1502). This magnificent folio has an engraved frontispiece and five full-page engraved illustrations after drawings by M. S. de Maella. The British Library copy bears the inscription 'Presented May
'5- ^778'. I have consulted the British Museum Archivist, Miss K. Janet Wallace, who
kindly tells me that the British Museum Book of Presents has the following entry for
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BIBLIOTHECA
HISPANA NOVA
SJf'E
HTSPANORUM SCRIPTORUM
Q.UI
AB A N N O
.M t). A l ) M 1)( L \ \ M V.
t L U R U E R E
NOTITIA.
A U C T O R l£
D.NICOLAO ANTONIO TIISPALENSI I. C
OrJiiiis S. Ijii'bi fqiiici:, pjtri.c l'.Lvli;li.t c.inciin.i'',
in Urbc & Romuna tuiia prixuraturc ycngrjli , tonliliario Rejjio.
Ni'yC PRIMUM PRODIT
RE COG NJ TA E ME ND A TA AUC TA
.^B IJ>iO
TOMUS PRIMUS.
M A T R I T I
APUD JOACHIMUM D£ 1J).\RR..\ TYPOGRAPHUM REGIUM
MDCCIAXXJII.
Fig. 5. Nicolas Antonio, Bihltoiheca Hispana Nova (Madrid, 1783-8), vol. i,
title-page. i28.h.4
HISTORIADORES
P R 1 M 1 T I V O S
DE LAS INDIAS OCCIDENTALES,
QUF. JUNTO, TRADUXO KN PAUTE,
y lacoi luz, ilullrados con crudi'tai.Nota.'s
y copiolos Indicci,
EL lLUSTRISSlMO SENOR
D. ANDRES GONZALEZ BARCIA,
DEL CONSEJO, Y CAMARA DE S. M.
DIVIDIDOS EN TRES TOMOS,
cuyo contenidu fe ver-i en el tolio liguicnte.
TOMO I.
MADRID. ANO MDCCXLIX
Fig. 6. Gonzalez dc Barcia, Hisloriadores
primttivos de las Indtits Ocadentales. (.Madrid,
1749), vol. i, title-page. G.6266
15 May 1778: 'Breviarium Gothicum Folio Madrid 1778: from an unknown Person, by
the hands of Dr Morton', [i.e. Charles Morton, 1716-99, Principal Librarian, 1776-99.]
One or two other works deserve a brief mention: the paraphrases of the Psalms by
Raynerius Snoy, Psalterium paraphrasibus illustratum, of which there were several
seventeenth-century editions, were published by Ibarra in two editions in 1762 and
1780, both with a Latin prologue by Ibarra himself. Unfortunately, neither is in the
British Library.
Manuel de Aguirre, Indagacion y reflexiones sobre la geograjia, was publisbed by the
Real Sociedad Vascongada de los Amigos del Pais in 1782, and printed by Ibarra, who
wrote the notice at the beginning ofthe book. There are three copies of this edition in
the British Library.
Another notable production was the travel book by Antonio Pon/: Viage de Esparla,
in twelve volumes, 1776, 1773-83 (vol. i only being ofthe second edition). This book
was referred to by Gonzalez de Ameziia as representing, as it were, a dividing line
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between ihc old and the new in Spain: it was the last travel book to be issued before
i . a iMiincesada', the l'rench invasion of 1808, when so much of Spain's treasure was
pillaged.
In the list which follows, the earliest Ibarra in the British Library is dated 1755. As
we ha\c already seen, the earlier years, from his leaving Cervera in 1742 until his
appearance in Madrid in 1753, are obscure. There seems to be no clue as to his
whereabouts or as to what, if anything, he printed. It seems therefore that Vindel's
claim'- that Ibarra began to print in 1749 with the issue of Gonzalez de Barcia,
Historiadorcs primitivos de las Indias Occidentales, 3 vols. (Madrid, 1749), cannot be
accepted without question. He has assumed that the device on the title-page^^ contains
the monogram of Ibarra, whereas it can almost as certainly be construed as representing
Barcta (fig. 6). Ruiz Lasala is probably correct in saying^"*" that the work was printed in
Madrid by Marin, who was the most experienced printer in Madrid at the time, and
who used a monogram remarkably similar both to the Barcia design and to that later
adopted by Ibarra himself;^ ^^ an indication, surely, that after leaving Cervera, Ibarra
did indeed go to Madrid to complete his professional training by working with his uncle.
MtMORiAl. ajustado hecho dc ordcn del Conscjo
de las Indias. fol.
146.c.17.
1759
INSAURRALDE, J. Ara poru aguTyey haba (o Buen
Uso del Tiempo, en lengua Guarani) 2 vols.
1759, 60. 8*".
4402.aaa.39.
[ANOTHER COPY.]
DF Dios 'i GuADAi.UPE, F. Mcdicina
pracnca dc Cjuadalupc, tol.
543.g.23.
1757
PiQLER, A. Discurso sobre la aplicacion de la
Philosophia a los assuntos de la religion. 4 .
1758
LoBO, E. G. Obras poeticas. Nueva edicion,
corrcgida, etc. 2 vols. 4 .
1509/544.
Defensa del Barbadino en
obscquio dc la vcrdad. 4 .
836.c.18.
MAVMO Y RIBES, J.
V PANDO, E. de, pseud. Palcografia
cspafiola. 4 . Wilh the signature of R. D.
ll'iu/diloie.
1268.e.36.
[ANOTHER COPY
of vol. i.]
LozANO, C. David pcrscguido, y alivio de
lastimados. 3 vols. 4''.
^Sl^lSll1760
HURTADO DE MENDOZA,
Zurtta. Convocacion
Castilla. 8^.
PEREZ PASTOR, M .
Endovellico. 8^
A., Comendador de
de las Cortes de
281.a.20.
Discrtacion sobre el Dios
1363.f3.
RoLLiN, C. Historia antigua de los egipcios.
13 vols. [vols. 10-13 only printed by Ibarra,
1760, 61.] 4°.
09008.ee.I.
1761
TKRRF.ROS
[ANOTHER COPY.J L . P .
16736.
i35i.a.2.
G.
XV, Pope. Pastoral e instrucciones
cclcsiasticas. vol. 2. Imperfect^ wanting vol. i
and all after p. 4^0 of vol. 2.
1494.aa.30.
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FEYJ6O Y MONTENEGRO, B. G .
un pccador. 4'.
Convcrsi6n de
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Comentarios a las Ordenanzas dc
minas de Nueva Kspana. fol.
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[ANOTHER COPY.] L.P.
145.g. 19.
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RODRIGUEZ DEL BARCO, J.
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RUEDA, M. de. Instruecion para gravar en
cobre. 8'\
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Rfos
honibre practico. 8".
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Compcndio dc la
historia de Espana. Traducido por J. F.
De Isla. 2 vols. 8^
9i8o.b.ii.
PiQUER, A. Praxis medica ad usum scholae
Valentinae. 2 pt. 1764, 66. 4'.
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re militari. 8'".
8823.h.21.
1765
1762
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Cartas eruditas
y curiosas. 5 vois. 1762-58-60. 4'^.
8405.f 17.
EEYJ6O Y MONTENEGRO, B. G .
La Hermosura sin lunas. 4°.
011451.ee.29.
[By J. Clavijo y Fajardo.]
5 vols. 1762-7. 16 . Imperfect; wanting vol. 6.
PP. 4O53.ab.
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no. J, whtch IS supplied in manuscript; vol. 4.,
no. 5/ and the 'Tahla'; vol. 6. PP. 4053.a.
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El
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VEGETIUS RENATUS, F . DC
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4".
PP. 4075.b.
Doctrina dc Solano dc
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GARCIA HERNANDEZ, F .
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B. Simon dc Roxas. 8".
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por F. Pumario. 8 .
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Ortega.) 6 vols. 1762-84. 4^.
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generacion de las plantas. 4 .
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1509/761
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G6MEZ ORTEGA, C. Tratado de la naturaleza. 4".
y regular, fol.
T.i9*(i6).
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MANUAL
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ii59.h.io,ii.
Descripcion de la Provincia de
Madrid. 8 . Richard Ford's copy. Signed and
with his bookplate.
Cup.405.i.18.
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autores e inventos dc artillcria. 8".
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209
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1770
AzEVEDO, A. M. de. De Reorum absolutione
objecta crimina negantium apud equuleum.
Memorial sobre cl
contenido dc difcrcntcs cartas del Obispo de
Cuenca. fol.
179.^4.
FERNANDEZ CX)RT(^.S, G .
de la lengua castellana. Quarta
impression, corregida y aumentada. 8°.
autenticos quo prucban la
obstinacion dc los Regularcs expulsos. fol.
T.i9*(4).
ORTOGRAFU
J. J. Parnaso espafiol.
9 vols. 1768 78. 8 . vols. /, 2 only with
Ibarra's imprint.
242.k.28-36.
SAI.AZAR
INSTRI'MENTOS
L6PEZ
DE SEDANO,
[ANOTHER ISSUE.]
imprint.
I'ols. i-s only wtth Ibarra's
G.17941-9.
P. Monarquia de
Espana. 3 vols. 1770, 71. fol.
181.f4.
1771
de. Vida y hechos del
ingcnioso caballcro Don Quixote de la
Mancha. 4 vols. 8 .
Cerv.37.
1768-82] I'ols. /, 2 only
with fhiirrn's nnprtnt.
O
ajustado de ordcn del conscjo con
citacion del Scfior P. Rodriguez Campomanes, fiscal del mismo. 2 vols. fol.
712.1.37.
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criminal sobre la voluntaria dclacion quc hizo
B. Navarro. fol.
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, M .
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DE
EL FUERO
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of Cantalapiedra. Libri decem
hypotyposeon cheologicarum, sive regularum
ad intclligendum Scripturas divinas. fol.
1484.m.41.
MARTINEZ, M . ,
NAVARRO, B.
PiQUER, .\. Tratado de calenturas. 4°.
756o.b.56.
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R.AZONES fundamcntalcs del Dcrecho regular
privativo dc la Orden dc San Francisco, fol.
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1N.SIRLC;CI6N
cr b> sixteen \ears. This gap in the brothers'
ages undoubtedly led to the belief that Manuel
was joaquin's uncle, an error which seems to have
been nailed b\ Inocencio Ruiz Lasala in his
Joaqtiin Ibarra y Murin (Zaragoza, 196S), p. 42.
Manuel Ibarra's first work for his new emphners
was printed the toliowing year, 1736: .Manuel
Conil. llcriititi vida y exemplares virtudes del
lencrahle docliir Jon Francisco dc Qjicrall. It is not
in rhe British Library. Hut the British Library has
214
at least one example of the produetions of this
press, B. Soler, Magistral sohre la Syntaxis de!
Wcslrc Juan Torrc/la {Cervera, 1743)2 I. Ruiz Lasala, op. cit., p. 86.
3 A chronological list of the productions of the
Ibarra press, from 1725 to 85, with a eontinuation
to 1834, is given in 1. Ruiz Lasala. I have used this
list extensively. For the early difficulties Ibarra
encountered at the hands of Juan Curiel,
appointed in 1753 as 'jucz privativo de imprentas'.
see C. A. Gonzalez Paiencia, 'Joaquin Ibarra y
el Juzgado de Imprentas\ Revista de la Bihlioteca.,
Archivoy Musco del .-iyuntamiento de Madrid, xiii
(it)44), pp. 5-47.
4 e.g, by D. B. Updike, Printing Types (London,
2nd edn., 1937), vol. ii, pp. 55 etc.
5 A copy of this rare book, hitherto not in the
British Librar>, has recently (June 1979) been
acquired. The title reads: Mecanismo del arte de
la Imprctita para facilidad dc los operarios que Ic
I'.xerztifi. Por Juan Josef Sit^ticttza )' I era.,
ihicipuh de Ibarra, y actual regentc dc la
tmprenla dc la Compania dc impresores y librcros
del rcyno. Madrid, Imprcnta dc la Cnmpama,
t8ii. I Iis dedicatory epistle opens tbus; 'Sefiora,
faltaria a las leyes de la gratitud y reconocimiento
si a la frente de esta obra no pusiera el nombre
de vmd. como nieta de mi maestro a quien tengo
grabado en mi corazon por lo mucho que me
estimo y los tavores que le debi.'
6 i.e. his second wife Manucla Contera.
7 See Diario de Madrid, no. 366 (31 Mar. 18^6):
'La imprenta de Ibarra que tiene nueve prensas
corrientes y acopio en ahundancia tanto de griego
\ hebreo como demas utiles, se pone en venta.'
8 Henry Williams Wynn (1783-1856) was later
knighted and became British Minister in Copenhagen. Robert Darley Waddilove (1736-1828)
was Chaplain to the Embassy in Madrid, 1771-9.
lie had access to the Library at the Kscorial and
was presented with a copy ofthe Sallust by the
translator. It is not clear whether ihis is the
Grcnville copy. Grenville's statement aboul the
translator is incorrect, as Perez Bayer shows in
a note to his essay on the Phoenician language,
which is included in tbe volume: 'V.\ sipuiente
escrito . . . compusose en osequio del autor de la
traduccion . . . el qual haviendolo leido, fue
scrvido mandar que se pusiese a continuacion
de su obra.'
g i.e. tbe second edition. The first was not then
known.
10 Iravcts thrnttgh Spain (London, 1779), vol. ii,
p. 203.
IT Handbodkjor Travellers in Spain (London, 1845),
12
13
14
15
vol. i, p. 316.
l'rancisco Vindel, EscuJos y marcas dc impresores
y lihrcros de Espana (Barcelona, 1942), p. 475:
'La imprenta de Ibarra comienza a imprimir en
1749'.
T h e British Library bas two copies: t 4 5 . f 9 - i i
and G.6266,7.
I. Ruiz Lasala, op. cit., p. g i . It should he noted,
bowever, that the author seems not to have
realized that the three volumes issued six years
after Barcia's death are made up of sixteen essays
printed in different years.
I. Ruiz Lasala, op. cit., pi. VII.