Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40877

Call Number

PQ2077.C2C78

Title Page

Comedia nueva La escocesa. :

En cinco actos. /

Traducida del ingles, al castellano.

Variant Title(s)

Escocesa

Caption Title

Comedia nueva ... en cinco actos

Imprint

Barcelona :;[Madrid] : Por la Viuda Piferrer, vendese en su Libreria, administrada por Juan Sellent; y en Madrid en la de Quiroga., [between 1785 and 1793]

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Language(s) of original

French

Title In Original Language

L'Écossaise

Physical Description

35, [1] pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-D⁴ E²

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: lo ; B4v: me ; C4v: Es ; D4v: ver-.
Herrera Navarro identifies Voltaire as author and Ramón de la Cruz as translator.
Claim in drop title that work is a translation from English is probably due to Voltaire's having published it with a fictional attribution: "par Mr. Hume, pretre ecossais, traduite en français par Jerome Carré" (London [i.e., Geneva], 1760).
Publication date based on when Sellent first began to work for Piferrer's firm, according to Comas i Güell, and Eulàlia Piferrer's period of activity.
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon.
Digitized by Biblioteca de la Real Academia Española: 41-V-32(5): A-D^4 E^2, p. 1-36 [36].
Original French title: L'Écossaise.

Citation Reference

Herrera Navarro, J. Catálogo de autores españoles del siglo XVIII, p. 139.
Comas i Güell, M. La imprenta catalana i els seus protagonistes a l'inici de la societat liberal (1800-1833), p. 283.
Szmuk, S.E. "A Descriptive Catalog of a Collection of Comedias Sueltas in the Hispanic Society of America." Dissertation, City University of New York, 1985, no. 188.

Printer's Series Number

N. 37.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS VARIAS A. E.
No. 25 of 25, in vol. 22 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.

Subject/Genre/Themes

French drama--Translations into Spanish.--18th century.

Genre/Form data

rbgenr--Booksellers' advertisements.
rbprov--NNH--Sammelbands.