Comedias Sueltas Database ID#

40946

Call Number

PQ6321.C262M37 1766

Title Page

Comedia famosa. El mas heroyco silencio. /

De don Antonio de Cardona.

Caption Title

Comedia famosa

Imprint

[Valencia] : Con Licencia: En Valencia, en la Imprenta de la Viuda de Joseph de Orga, Calle de la Cruz Nueva, junto al Real Colegio de Corpus Christi, en donde se hallará esta, y otras de diferentes Títulos., Año 1766.

Language(s) of text

Spanish

Physical Description

36 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Signatures

Signatures: A-D⁴ E²

General Notes

Catchwords: A4v: Era- ; B4v: Es- ; C4v: none [should be se] ; D4v: tan.
The typography, especially the use of short ss in this suelta with an early date, suggests it is a concealed reprint. Cf. Cruickshank, "Some problems posed by suelta editions of plays" p. 119.
Bookseller's advertisement in colophon.

Citation Reference

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. 283.

Printer's Series Number

N. 111.

Source of acquisition

Purchase
Hiersemann catalog 411, no. 71
1912.

Local Notes

No. 4 of 16, in vol. 18 of a 26-volume set of plays by various authors.
Quarter-bound in maroon cloth and mottled paper, with binder's title: COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO XVII A. G.

Subject/Genre/Themes

Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700.

Genre/Form data

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