page_title: Collection (publishing)
section_title: Brief history
hierarchical_section_title: Collection (publishing) / Brief history
caption_attribution_description: Español: Escaparate de la empresa Gaspar y Roig cuando se expone «El Museo Universal». Las imágenes impresas tuvieron un atractivo para la sociedad del siglo XIX comparable al que hoy tienen nuestros medios de comunicación visual.
context_page_description: In the field of book publishing, a collection, or more precisely editorial collection is a set of books published by the same publisher, usually written by various authors, grouped under the same title, each book with a particular title. The collective title is the title of the collection, it must be mentioned on each book.
  The books that make up an editorial collection can be published in a specific order or not. When each volume in the collection has a serial number, it is called a numbered collection.
  A collection generally using distinctive, common formats and features. The title of a collection can be accompanied by the term "series" or its equivalents in other languages, such as in the English-speaking world, for example, the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Découvertes Gallimard and Que sais-je? are all termed book series instead of collections.
context_section_description: In France, the concept "collection" invented by Louis Hachette, a 19th-century publisher, under the name bibliothèque, which means "library".
  In 19th and early 20th-century Spain, literary collections such as Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, Biblioteca Mignon, El Libro Popular and La Novela Corta were produced. Another collection created in 1851, in Madrid, the Biblioteca ilustrada de Gaspar y Roig, notably for its encyclopaedialike contents. It contains not only the literary works (popular novels of the 19th century), but also reference work (dictionary), Comte de Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, Cesare Cantù's Storia Universale, Juan de Mariana's Historia general de España... and it even contains the whole Bible in Spanish (Biblia de Scío).
  In Italy, the first editorial collection is Collana historica, which included the vulgarised works of twelve Greek historians, edited by the 16th-century humanist Tommaso Porcacchi and printed in Venice by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari from 1563 to 1585. They gave it this metaphorical use of the term: each work is a "ring" or "joy" of the collana (collana originally means "necklace").
caption: The Spanish publisher Gaspar y Roig's bookshop in 19th-century Madrid.
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