Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

10002

Call Number

PQ6225 .T43 v.18

Title Page

El avaro :

comedia en prosa en cinco actos /

escrita por el señor Molier ; traducida al castellano por Orchard-Old.

Imprint

Barcelona : Por Juan Francisco Piferrer : [between 1785 and 1804?]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Language(s) of original

French

Title In Original Language

Avare

Physical Description

36 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-D⁴ E².

General Notes

According to Jaime Moll, Orchard-Old is a pseudonym for Dámaso de Isusquiza, but for Rogers and Lapuente it is a possible pseudonym used by Vicente García de la Huerta in this translation of Molière's L'avare. Cf. RAE Catalogo.
Caption title.
Date of publication conjectured from dates of printer's and booksellers' activities.

Citation Reference

Moll, Jaime. Catálogo de comedias sueltas conservadas en la Biblioteca de la Real Academia Española. En: Boletín de la Real Academia Española, t. XLIV (1964) cuad. 171, t. XLV (1965) cuad. 175, t. XLVI (1966) cuad. 177, n. 107.

Printer's Series Number

Num. 3.

Local Notes

RBC copy: Bookplate of Julián Barbazán (1897-) (printing press with initials J.B.) on front paste-down; ink stamp of J.L. Castro on page 1 of first bound-with item.
RBC copy: No. 8, in vol. 18 with binder's title: Comedias. Manuscript contents list affixed to front flyleaf verso. Half-bound in sprinkled leather with marbled paper boards; gilt rules, title, and volume number on spine.

Genre/Form data

Comedies
Bookplates (Provenance)
Ink stamps (Provenance)