Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40881

Call Number

PQ6217.A2 C664 v.23/n.2

Title Page

Comedia nueva. La espigadera.

Variant Title(s)

Espigadera

Caption Title

Comedia nueva

Imprint

Barcelona :;y en 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

Moissonneurs

Physical Description

32 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-D⁴

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: Sa- ; B4v: un ; C4v: al-.
La espigadera is a translation of Favart's play Les Moissonneurs.
BNE attributes play to Favart.
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.

Citation Reference

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. 194.

Printer's Series Number

N. 43.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

No. 2 of 24, in vol. 23 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS VARIAS F. M.

Subject/Genre/Themes

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

Genre/Form data

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