Coleccion de laminas para la edicion en octavo de la Historia de España
Subtitle: en que se representan los principales pasages de ella
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Valencia
Language: spa
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Illustrations; History; Pictorial works
Other titles: Historia de España
Notes: Consists of engraved plates to illustrate an unidentified history of Spain in octavo format, probably an abridgement of the 18-vol. quarto ed. of Juan de Mariana, Historia general de España, with 106 plates, pub.: Valencia, Impr. de M. Lopez, 1830-1841.

Title from cover to v. 1.

Several plates are dated 1830 or 1833 and have the imprint Val[enci]a.

Each vol., or "entrega", consists of 3 leaves of engraved plates, 2 plates per leaf, stitched in printed wrappers. Each plate is numbered and has a volume and page reference indicating where it is to be bound in the text.

The plates are engraved by Abad, T. Blasco, Boix, Gómez, T. Rocafort, Rocafort el hijo, and M. Sigüenza after designs by J.R. Luna, J. Perez, A. Rodriguez, J. Romá, and L. Tellez.

Plate 75 has caption: Ultima lam[in]a g[rabad]o p[o]r Rocafort el hijo de edad de 20 años 1833.

Volume numbers written in ink on front covers.

"El precio de cada entrega por suscripcion es de 12 rs. en Valencia, y 13 en las demas provincias".

The Houghton Library set (appparently incomplete) consists of Entregas 1-14 (pl. 1-84), which includes plates for v. 1-3 and part of v. 4 of the printed text.