JOAQ^UIN IBARRA, 1725-1785: A TENTATIVELIST OF HOLDINGS IN THE REFERENCE

DIVISION OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY

H. G. WHITEHEAD

T H R E E printers in eighteenth-century Spain are commonly regarded as the leaders ofthe revival in printing standards in that country. Of the three, Joaquin Ibarra, BenitoMonfort, and Antonio de Sancha, it is Ibarra who is generally considered to bepre-eminent.

He was born in Saragossa on 19 July 1725, the son of Juan Ibarra and MarianaMarin, baptized on the following day in the church of S. Maria Magdalena and giventhe names Braulio Elias Joaquin Benito. Of his earliest years nothing is known, but in1735, his elder brother ManueP arrived in Saragossa from Madrid, where he had workedas a compositor in the printing works of Antonio Marin, his maternal uncle. Manuelhad just been nominated printer to the University of Cervera, founded a few yearspreviously in 1717, and was on his way to take up his new post. Joaquin went withhim as an apprentice and stayed in the university town for seven years, learning histrade and gaining as much education as he could. The two brothers parted in 1742,when Joaquin moved (though where to remains mysterious) whilst Manuel stayed onat the University until 1749. It has been suggested that Joaquin went to Madrid- towork with his uncle Marin during the years 1742-53. However, in this latter year hereappeared, w ith his own printing shop in the Calle de las Urosas, from where heissued, in that same year, three works, none of which, unfortunately, is in the BritishLibrary.^

The productions of this press show a conscious effort to restore to Spanish printingthe high standards of a previous age. In this, Ibarra was so successful that he is justlyranked alongside Baskerville, Didot, and Bodoni as one of the outstanding printers ofthe eighteenth century.

His technical skill as a printer has been assessed by others,"^ and it may suffice tomention here that he improved the quality of his inks quite independently, it seems,from what was being done elsewhere, smoothed and glazed his paper, and above allran an efficient shop, to enter which was the highest honour to which an apprenticeprinter could aspire. Ibarra rapidly acquired a reputation as an instructor, and whenyears later a former pupil, Juan Jose de Sigiienza y Vera, published a little book onprinting, he dedicated it to his former master's granddaughter, Maria Ifiiguez e Ibarra,and with touching loyalty acknowledged his debt.^

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At the height of his career Ibarra was official printer to Charles III, to the Archbishopof l\)ledi), and to the Real Academia de la Lengua. The King, indeed, played animportant part in the revival of printing standards in Spain. As a youth he had beeninstructed by Ibarra's uncle Marin, and had done some amateur printing, whilst stillan Infante de Espatia and before going to Naples. Now, after his accession to theSpanish throne in 1759, he granted various privileges to the printing confraternity. Heexcused them from military service {Real Cedula of 17 March 1763). He exempted themfrom tax on vermilion (Real Cedula of 22 March 1763). The state monopoly on leadwas eased to favour punch-cutters and type-casters (Real Cedula of 5 January 1775).And, perhaps most important of all, he authorized setting up the Real Compaiiia deImpresores y Libreros de! Reino (Real Cedula of 24 July 1763), of which companyIbarra himself was a founder member. Ibarra's style of printing has been described bysome as ^revolutionary\ which is not far from the truth. As late as 1744^54. type usedin Spain was often old-fashioned, as can be seen in the products of the Mexican pressof the eminent printer Eguiara y Eguren, who bought at this time from Spain the typeto print his well-known Bihliotheca Mexicana.

Ibarra died in 1785, but the press survived under the successive direction of hiswidow,*' sons, and grandson until 1836, when it was sold.^ The Secretary of the Academyreported Ibarra's death on 15 November 1785, and a short obituary notice by Clavijoy Fajardo (the translator of Buffon) appeared in volume 3 of the Mercurio de Espana,but apart from that his death went unnoticed. Nor was there any fitting commemorationof Spain's greatest printer until 1923, when the Municipality of Madrid placed a plaqueon the wall of the house at no. 13 Calle de Nunez de Arce.

The Ibarra press issued some 2,500 titles. Of those issued in Ibarra's lifetime thefollow ing are noteworthy: the bilingual edition of Sallust, La Conjuracwn de Catihnay la Guerra de Jugurta (1772); the Royal Academy edition of Don Quijote (1780); theBreviarium Gothicum ad usum Sacelli Mozarabum (i775); ^^^ Nicolas Antonio, BiblwthecaHispana Nova (1783-8), in two volumes, the work having been completed, along withthe two volumes for the Biblwtheca Hispana Vetus (1788), by his widow.

All these editions are in the British Library, and most in more than one copy. Thereare, for instance, three copies of the Sallust. The first was sent, presumably by thetranslator Gabriel Antonio de Borbon, the second son of Charles III, to George III,and now forms part of the King's Library. The second copy was sent to Grenville byhis nephew Henry Williams Wynn. A note by Grenville in this copy states 'First editionand first impression. A present from Hen; Williams Wynn on his return from Spain,1809. This translation was made by F. Perez, tutor to the Prince. Mr Waddelove,chaplain to the English Ambassador, Ld Grantham, procured the types from theBaskerville font.'^ The third copy came from the library of the Revd. C. M. Cracherode.Updike regarded this book as Ibarra's masterpiece and draws a parallel between it andsome of the earlier productions of Bodoni. The title-page is engraved, and there areengraved head- and tail-pieces and initials designed by Mariano Salvador de Maella(later, in 1799, to become, together with Goya, first Court painter) and others (figs, i, 2).

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CONJURACIONDE CATIIINA

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Fig. I. Sallust, La Conjuracwn de Catilina (Madrid, 1772), title-page. 680.i.6

LA CONJURACION

DE CATILINAP O R

CAYO SALUSTIO'CRISPO.iST.4 cosj CS niic /os /londv'cs , {ji/e Jc-.•ic^in avciitafcir.ie j /os Jcnias i-ivicii-

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docci , nc \it.iin silcniio tiauw-Tint. belluiscunjiiunc Cii. Ouoin ih i TLC-

Fig. 2. Sallust, La Conjuractdn de Catilina (Madrid, 1772), page i. 680.i.6

EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO

DON QUIXOTE

DE LA MANCHACOMl'UESTO

POR MIGUEL DE CERvANTIiS SAAVEDRA.

N U P. VA E D I C i O N

CORRCGI f>.V

rOR LA REAL ACADEMIA IiSl'ASOLA.

PARTE PRIMERA.

T O M O I.

CON SITRRIOR I>ERMISO:I N H \11R11>

Ftg. J. Cervantes, Ei higemoso Hidalgo DonQuixote de la Mancha {Madrid, 1780), vol. i,

title-page. 673.1 .13

Equally well known and as highly prized is the Academy edition of Dou Q ,which Ibarra printed in 1780. This splendid four-volume edition was planned by Vicentede los Rios and Francisco Antonio de Angulo, the Secretary to the Academy. A minutedated 11 March 1773 had suggested the issue ofa quarto edition with original engravingsby members of the Academia de San Fernando, 'Una impresion correcta y magnificade Don Quijote; en papel marquilla, [i.e. demy, ijy'x22\"] y en tomos de quarto,con laminas originales . . . y con los demas adornos correspondientes para que en todassus partes tenga esta edicion la perfeccion posible.' The text was collated carefully withthe editions of 1605,^ 1608, and 1615. Special paper from the Guarro mills in Cataloniawas ordered and a new type cast from matrices made in Madrid by Jeronimo Gil forthe press of the Biblioteca Real. It was an edition of about 1,500 copies: four are inthe British Library (figs. 3, 4). Two years later Ibarra produced a charming readingedition in octavo, again in four volumes, and with many plates. The British Libraryhas two copies of this edition, one from the library of George III, the other, imperfectin that it lacks the plates, from the Ashbee Collection.

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PRIMERA PARTE

DEL I N G E N I O S O H I D A L G O

DON QUIXOTEDE LA MANCHA.

One

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CAPITULO TRIMERO.

:j dc ia condicion , y cxercicio dei famoso hi-daigo Don Quixote dc ia Manciia.

I n un Lugar Jc la Mancha, dc cuyo nombreno t-juicro acordartnc, no ha mucho ticmpoc]uc \ i \ i a un hidalgo dc los de lanza en as-tillcto, aJarga antigua , rocin llaco, y gal-go LorrcJor. Lhia olla dc algo mas vaca quc

carnero , salpicon las mas nochcs , duclos y qucbrantoslos sabados , lantejas los vicrnes, algun palomino dc ana-diJura los Joniingos consumian las tres partes Jc su ha-cienJa. L\l resro dcUa conclulan sayo Je vclarrc , calzaidc \ulludo para las fiestas con sus pantuflos dc Io mes-m o , y lob dias dc cntre scmana sc honraba con su vcllo-

TOM. I .

Fig. 4. Cervantes, Fl fngenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (Madrid, 1780), vol. i, page i,673.k. 13

Henry Swinburne, who visited Spain in 1775 and 1776, refers to tbe Ibarra Quixote:*There is now an edition of Don Quixote with prints taken from original drawings ofthe dresses and landscapes of the country, which has employed all the best engraversfor some time past . . . Printing seems of late to be the branch they most excel in . . .'"^And the most renowned of all English travellers in the Peninsula, Richard Ford, roundlydeclared: 'One word on the different and best editions of this Shakespeare of Spain.The works of Cervantes especially his capo d' opera "Don Quixote" have gone throughmany. Happy the man whose eye can glance on a goodly set of the earliest . . . thefinest, that ''de lujo" was published for the Academy of Madrid, by Ibarra, 4 Vols.folio, 1780 and no grand library should be without it.'^'

The Bibliotheca Hispana I etiis, and its companion the Bihiiothcca Hispatia Nova,compiled by Nicolas Antonio, were first issued in Rome, where the author was thenliving, during the years 1672-96. The work, in four volumes, is a bibliography ot Spanishauthors from the time of Augustus the first Emperor to the year 1684 (when Antoniodied), and in spite of errors and omissions has always been regarded as ot fundamentalimportance, 'a work of European fame, still in active use', to quote Sir Thomas Kendrick(St. James In Spain, London, i960, p. 146), and an outstanding work of Spanishbibliography.

The two volumes ofthe Nova were issued with the Ibarra imprint in 1783 and 1788(fig. 5), and both volumes of the Vetus in 1788, those of this latter date having beenissued with the imprint of Ibarra's successors. Although the bibliographies such asBrunet, Palau, and Simon Diaz accept the 1783 imprint, the British Library's GeneralCatalogue of printed books questions it, with the note 'The date 1783 on the title-pageof tom. I is a printer's error for 1788'. This forthright statement (which must surelybe corrected) is accompanied by no statement of authority in the Department'smanuscript records, and it is difficult to accept it at its face value, especially as thecolophon repeats the earlier date. The imprint states quite clearly: 'Matriti, apudJoachimum de Ibarra Typographum Regium MDCCLXXXIIF, and the colophon:'Matriti, apud Joachimum de Ibarra, Anno MDCCLXXXIIF. By contrast, the imprintofthe second volume (in which there is no colophon) reads: 'Matriti, apud Viduam etHeredes Joachimi de Ibarra Typographi Regii MDCCLXXXVIII'. In a work generallyregarded as one of Ibarra's finest and noblest efforts, such a glaring misprint on thetitle-page, repeated in the colophon, would hardly have passed unnoticed. It is, I imagine,possible that the first volume was not issued until volume 2 was ready, by which timeIbarra had died, and the original imprint and colophon were allowed to stand.

While Ibarra was printer to the Archbishop of Toledo he issued the MozarabicBreviary of 1775 ('Apud Joachimum Ibarra S.C.R.M. & Dignit. Archiep. Typogr'.), theonly earlier edition of which was printed by Hagembach in Toledo (1502). This magnifi-cent folio has an engraved frontispiece and five full-page engraved illustrations after draw-ings by M. S. de Maella. The British Library copy bears the inscription 'Presented May'5- ^778'. I have consulted the British Museum Archivist, Miss K. Janet Wallace, whokindly tells me that the British Museum Book of Presents has the following entry for

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BIBLIOTHECA

HISPANA NOVASJf'E

HTSPANORUM SCRIPTORUMQ . U I A B A N N O .M t). A l ) M 1)( L \ \ M V. t L U R U E R E

NOTITIA.A U C T O R l£

D.NICOLAO ANTONIO TIISPALENSI I. COrJiiiis S. Ijii'bi fqiiici:, pjtri.c l'.Lvli;li.t c.inciin.i'',

in Urbc & Romuna tuiia prixuraturc ycngrjli , tonliliario Rejjio.

Ni'yC PRIMUM PRODIT

RE COG NJ TA E ME ND A TA AUC TA.^B IJ>iO

TOMUS PRIMUS.

M A T R I T IAPUD JOACHIMUM D£ 1J).\RR..\ TYPOGRAPHUM REGIUM

MDCCIAXXJII.

Fig. 5. Nicolas Antonio, Bihltoiheca Hispana Nova (Madrid, 1783-8), vol. i,title-page. i28.h.4

HISTORIADORESP R 1 M 1 T I V O S

DE LAS INDIAS OCCIDENTALES,QUF. JUNTO, TRADUXO KN PAUTE,y lacoi luz, ilullrados con crudi'tai.Nota.'s

y copiolos Indicci,

EL lLUSTRISSlMO SENOR

D. ANDRES GONZALEZ BARCIA,DEL CONSEJO, Y CAMARA DE S. M.

DIVIDIDOS EN TRES TOMOS,cuyo contenidu fe ver-i en el tolio liguicnte.

TOMO I.

MADRID. ANO MDCCXLIX

Fig. 6. Gonzalez dc Barcia, Hisloriadoresprimttivos de las Indtits Ocadentales. (.Madrid,

1749), vol. i, title-page. G.6266

15 May 1778: 'Breviarium Gothicum Folio Madrid 1778: from an unknown Person, bythe hands of Dr Morton', [i.e. Charles Morton, 1716-99, Principal Librarian, 1776-99.]

One or two other works deserve a brief mention: the paraphrases of the Psalms byRaynerius Snoy, Psalterium paraphrasibus illustratum, of which there were severalseventeenth-century editions, were published by Ibarra in two editions in 1762 and1780, both with a Latin prologue by Ibarra himself. Unfortunately, neither is in theBritish Library.

Manuel de Aguirre, Indagacion y reflexiones sobre la geograjia, was publisbed by theReal Sociedad Vascongada de los Amigos del Pais in 1782, and printed by Ibarra, whowrote the notice at the beginning ofthe book. There are three copies of this edition inthe British Library.

Another notable production was the travel book by Antonio Pon/: Viage de Esparla,in twelve volumes, 1776, 1773-83 (vol. i only being ofthe second edition). This bookwas referred to by Gonzalez de Ameziia as representing, as it were, a dividing line

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between ihc old and the new in Spain: it was the last travel book to be issued beforei .a iMiincesada', the l'rench invasion of 1808, when so much of Spain's treasure waspillaged.

In the list which follows, the earliest Ibarra in the British Library is dated 1755. Aswe ha\c already seen, the earlier years, from his leaving Cervera in 1742 until hisappearance in Madrid in 1753, are obscure. There seems to be no clue as to hiswhereabouts or as to what, if anything, he printed. It seems therefore that Vindel'sclaim'- that Ibarra began to print in 1749 with the issue of Gonzalez de Barcia,Historiadorcs primitivos de las Indias Occidentales, 3 vols. (Madrid, 1749), cannot beaccepted without question. He has assumed that the device on the title-page^^ containsthe monogram of Ibarra, whereas it can almost as certainly be construed as representingBarcta (fig. 6). Ruiz Lasala is probably correct in saying "*" that the work was printed inMadrid by Marin, who was the most experienced printer in Madrid at the time, andwho used a monogram remarkably similar both to the Barcia design and to that lateradopted by Ibarra himself;^ ^ an indication, surely, that after leaving Cervera, Ibarradid indeed go to Madrid to complete his professional training by working with his uncle.

MtMORiAl. ajustado hecho dc ordcn del Conscjode las Indias. fol. 146.c.17.

DF Dios 'i GuADAi.UPE, F. Mcdicinapracnca dc Cjuadalupc, tol. 543.g.23.

1757PiQLER, A. Discurso sobre la aplicacion de la

Philosophia a los assuntos de la religion. 4 .

1758

LoBO, E. G. Obras poeticas. Nueva edicion,corrcgida, etc. 2 vols. 4 . 1509/544.

MAVMO Y RIBES, J . Defensa del Barbadino enobscquio dc la vcrdad. 4 . 836.c.18.

TKRRF.ROS V PANDO, E. de, pseud. Palcografiacspafiola. 4 . Wilh the signature of R. D.ll'iu/diloie. 1268.e.36.

[ANOTHER COPY.J L . P . 7i .b. i i .

1759INSAURRALDE, J. Ara poru aguTyey haba (o Buen

Uso del Tiempo, en lengua Guarani) 2 vols.1759, 60. 8*". 4402.aaa.39.

[ANOTHER COPY.] G . 16736.

[ANOTHER COPY of vol. i.] i35i.a.2.

LozANO, C. David pcrscguido, y alivio delastimados. 3 vols. 4''. ^Sl^lSll-

1760

HURTADO DE MENDOZA, A., Comendador deZurtta. Convocacion de las Cortes deCastilla. 8 . 281.a.20.

PEREZ PASTOR, M . Discrtacion sobre el DiosEndovellico. 8^ 1363.f3.

RoLLiN, C. Historia antigua de los egipcios.13 vols. [vols. 10-13 only printed by Ibarra,1760, 61.] 4°. 09008.ee.I.

1761

BENEDICT XV, Pope. Pastoral e instruccionescclcsiasticas. vol. 2. Imperfect^ wanting vol. iand all after p. 4^0 of vol. 2. 1494.aa.30.

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FEYJ6O Y MONTENEGRO, B. G . Convcrsi6n deun pccador. 4'. 1145i.e.39(1).

GAMBOA, F . J . Comentarios a las Ordenanzas dcminas de Nueva Kspana. fol. 459.a.r8.

[ANOTHER COPY.] L.P. 145.g. 19.

RODRIGUEZ DEL BARCO, J . Tablas atithmeticas.8°. 8504.aa.9.

RUEDA, M. de. Instruecion para gravar encobre. 8'\ i40i.a.26.

TELLADO, B. NUCVO manojito de florcs. 12°.

1762

EEYJ6O Y MONTENEGRO, B. G. Cartas eruditasy curiosas. 5 vois. 1762-58-60. 4' .

8405.f 17.

NAVARRO, J . La Hermosura sin lunas. 4°.011451.ee.29.

EL PENSADOR. [By J. Clavijo y Fajardo.]5 vols. 1762-7. 16 . Imperfect; wanting vol. 6.

PP. 4O53.ab.

[ANOTHER COPY.] Imperfect; wanting vol. /,no. J, whtch IS supplied in manuscript; vol. 4.,no. 5/ and the 'Tahla'; vol. 6. PP. 4053.a.

QUER Y MARTINEZ, J. Flora cspanola. vols. i-iv.(vol. v-vi. Continuacion por C. Gomez deOrtega.) 6 vols. 1762-84. 4^. 447.e.5.

[ANOTHER COPY.] 36.d.4.

RoDRfGUEz CAMPOMANES Y SORRIBA, P., Countde Campomanes. Noticia geografica del reynoy caminos de Portugal. 8 . 10161.aa.24

1763G6MEZ ORTEGA, C. Tratado de la naturaleza. 4".

T.77(4)-[ANOTHER COPY.] B.48(6) .

L6PEZ, T . Descripcion de la Provincia deMadrid. 8 . Richard Ford's copy. Signed andwith his bookplate. Cup.405.i.18.

1764

1 GRANADA, Real Maestranza.] I'.statutos yordenanzas. 4 \ 5384.IT. 12.

GUTIERREZ DE LOS Rfos Y C6RDOBA, F . Elhonibre practico. 8". 722.a.23.

PHILIPOTEAU DE CHESNE, J . B. Compcndio dc lahistoria de Espana. Traducido por J. F.De Isla. 2 vols. 8^ 9i8o.b.ii.

PiQUER, A. Praxis medica ad usum scholaeValentinae. 2 pt. 1764, 66. 4'. 541.c.31.

VEGETIUS RENATUS, F . DC re militari. 8'".8823.h.21.

1765EL BELIANIS LITERARIO. nos. 1-6. 4".

PP. 4075.b.

GARCIA HERNANDEZ, F . Doctrina dc Solano dcLuque aclarada. 4 . i47i.g.2i.

1766

CANO, A. Compendio historico de la vida delB. Simon dc Roxas. 8". 4865.aa.15.

MANUAL para el uso dc la Sagrada Religiondispuesto por A.M. de Galicia. 4 .

4785.df.15.1767

BALLERINI, P. Metodo dc cstudiar. Traducidopor F. Pumario. 8 . 1493.d.25.

CHAMBERI.AYNK, E., LL.D. Noticia dc la GranBrctana. Traducido por N. dc Ribcra. 4 .

8132.d.12.

GARCIA HERNANDEZ, F . NUCVO discurso dc lageneracion de las plantas. 4 . 462.c.7.

MAYM6 Y RIBES, J. Proemiales dc la juris-prudcncia. 2 vols. 1767, 68. 4^. 1509/761

MERINO, M . F., Bishop. A todo el clero seculary regular, fol. T.i9*(i6).

NovuM TESTAMENTUM. 2 pt. 8".i i59.h.io, i i .

Rios, V. de los. Discursos sobre los ilustresautores e inventos dc artillcria. 8".

1398.a.20.

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1768

FERNANDEZ CX)RT( .S, G . Memorial sobre clcontenido dc difcrcntcs cartas del Obispo deCuenca. fol. 179.^4.

INSTRI'MENTOS autenticos quo prucban laobstinacion dc los Regularcs expulsos. fol.

T.i9*(4).

L6PEZ DE SEDANO, J. J. Parnaso espafiol.9 vols. 1768 78. 8 . vols. /, 2 only withIbarra's imprint. 242.k.28-36.

[ANOTHER ISSUE.] I'ols. i-s only wtth Ibarra'simprint. G.17941-9.

[ANOTHER EDITION. 1768-82] I'ols. /, 2 onlywith fhiirrn's nnprtnt. O

MEMORIAL ajustado de ordcn del conscjo concitacion del Scfior P. Rodriguez Campo-manes, fiscal del mismo. 2 vols. fol.

712.1.37.

NAVARRO, B. Memorial ajustado de la causacriminal sobre la voluntaria dclacion quc hizoB. Navarro. fol. 1490.ee.64.

PiQUER, .\. Tratado de calenturas. 4°.756o.b.56.

R.AZONES fundamcntalcs del Dcrecho regularprivativo dc la Orden dc San Francisco, fol.

4783.cc.1(16).

RiPiA, J. dc ta. Practica de la administraciony cobranzas de las rcntas reales. fol.

180.e.2.

1770AzEVEDO, A. M. de. De Reorum absolutione

objecta crimina negantium apud equuleum.

ORTOGRAFU de la lengua castellana. Quartaimpression, corregida y aumentada. 8°.

SAI.AZAR DE MENDOZA, P. Monarquia deEspana. 3 vols. 1770, 71. fol. 181.f4.

1771CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, M . de. Vida y hechos del

ingcnioso caballcro Don Quixote de laMancha. 4 vols. 8 . Cerv.37.

EL FUERO vicjo de Castilla. fol. 24.f.6(i).

GRAMATICA dc la lengua espafiola. 8" .

MARTINEZ, M . , of Cantalapiedra. Libri decemhypotyposeon cheologicarum, sive regularumad intclligendum Scripturas divinas. fol.

1484.m.41.

MEMORIAL ajustado entre D. V. Paino yHurtado y el H. Concejo de la Mesta. fol.

[ANOTHER ISSUE.] D J - 3 -

PONCE DE LE6N, A., Duke de Arcos. Represen-tacion contra el pretendido voto de Santiago.fol.

[ANOTHER COPY. MS. additions.] 1502/66.

17721769

AjOERiN, F. dc. Portentosa vida del pasmo depenitencia y cxtatico Minorita, cl beatoBernardo dc Corleon. 4 . 4829.bb.24.

FERDINAND, Duke of Parma. Juicio imparcialsobre las Ictras en forma dc breve, fol.

689.ece.29.

[ANOTHER COPY.] 1505/6-

ARISTOTLE. p

XGLOJv BipXia i'. fol. 1605/598.

DiSTRiBUCiON de los premios concedidos por elRey. 4^ A three-volume set., covering the yearsi'jS2-i8;^2., of which Ibarra printed the issuesfor 1772, 1778, 1781, 1784. Ac.4521.

G6MEZ QUEVEDO VILLEGAS, F . de. Obras. 6vols. 4 . 635.k.13-16.

2 1 0

GRAMATICA de la lengua castellana.

BAYER, F . Del alfabeto y lengua dc losfenisios. {In: La conjuracion de Catilina.) fol.

68o.i.6.

SALUSTIUS CRISPUS, C. La conjuracion dcCatihna. fol. L.P. 68o.i.6.

[ANOTHER COPY.] L.P. C.5.d.4.

[ANOTHER COPY.] L.P. G.9185.

^773ANDRES DE GUSSEME, T . Diccionario numis-

matico general. 6 vols. lyj^-"]. 4 .602.h.1-3.

[ANOTHER COPY.] Imperfect; wanttng vol. 6.141.c.19-24.

ANTONIO, de Lebrtxia, the Elder. Introduccioneslatinas. 4 . 1609/5190.

BocANEGRA Y XiBOYA, F. A., SuccessivelyBtshop ofGuadix and Baza and Archbishop ofSantiago de Compostela. Sermoncs. Segundaedicion. 3 vols. 1773-80. 8 . 1359.c.5.

BREVE por cl qual su Santidad suprime laCompania de Jesus, fol. Lat. and Sp.

T.i9*(2i).

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cr b> sixteen \ears. This gap in the brothers'ages undoubtedly led to the belief that Manuelwas joaquin's uncle, an error which seems to havebeen nailed b\ Inocencio Ruiz Lasala in hisJoaqtiin Ibarra y Murin (Zaragoza, 196S), p. 42.Manuel Ibarra's first work for his new emphnerswas printed the toliowing year, 1736: .ManuelConil. llcriititi vida y exemplares virtudes dellencrahle docliir Jon Francisco dc Qjicrall. It is notin rhe British Library. Hut the British Library has

at least one example of the produetions of thispress, B. Soler, Magistral sohre la Syntaxis de!Wcslrc Juan Torrc/la {Cervera, 1743)-

2 I. Ruiz Lasala, op. cit., p. 86.3 A chronological list of the productions of the

Ibarra press, from 1725 to 85, with a eontinuationto 1834, is given in 1. Ruiz Lasala. I have used thislist extensively. For the early difficulties Ibarraencountered at the hands of Juan Curiel,appointed in 1753 as 'jucz privativo de imprentas'.

214

see C. A. Gonzalez Paiencia, 'Joaquin Ibarra yel Juzgado de Imprentas\ Revista de la Bihlioteca.,Archivoy Musco del .-iyuntamiento de Madrid, xiii(it)44), pp. 5-47.

4 e.g, by D. B. Updike, Printing Types (London,2nd edn., 1937), vol. ii, pp. 55 etc.

5 A copy of this rare book, hitherto not in theBritish Librar>, has recently (June 1979) beenacquired. The title reads: Mecanismo del arte dela Imprctita para facilidad dc los operarios que IcI'.xerztifi. Por Juan Josef Sit^ticttza )' I era.,ihicipuh de Ibarra, y actual regentc dc latmprenla dc la Compania dc impresores y librcrosdel rcyno. Madrid, Imprcnta dc la Cnmpama,t8ii . I Iis dedicatory epistle opens tbus; 'Sefiora,faltaria a las leyes de la gratitud y reconocimientosi a la frente de esta obra no pusiera el nombrede vmd. como nieta de mi maestro a quien tengograbado en mi corazon por lo mucho que meestimo y los tavores que le debi.'

6 i.e. his second wife Manucla Contera.7 See Diario de Madrid, no. 366 (31 Mar. 18^6):

'La imprenta de Ibarra que tiene nueve prensascorrientes y acopio en ahundancia tanto de griego\ hebreo como demas utiles, se pone en venta.'

8 Henry Williams Wynn (1783-1856) was laterknighted and became British Minister in Copen-hagen. Robert Darley Waddilove (1736-1828)was Chaplain to the Embassy in Madrid, 1771-9.

lie had access to the Library at the Kscorial andwas presented with a copy ofthe Sallust by thetranslator. It is not clear whether ihis is theGrcnville copy. Grenville's statement aboul thetranslator is incorrect, as Perez Bayer shows ina note to his essay on the Phoenician language,which is included in tbe volume: 'V.\ sipuienteescrito . . . compusose en osequio del autor de latraduccion . . . el qual haviendolo leido, fuescrvido mandar que se pusiese a continuacionde su obra.'

g i.e. tbe second edition. The first was not thenknown.

10 Iravcts thrnttgh Spain (London, 1779), vol. ii,p. 203.

IT Handbodkjor Travellers in Spain (London, 1845),vol. i, p. 316.

12 l'rancisco Vindel, EscuJos y marcas dc impresoresy lihrcros de Espana (Barcelona, 1942), p. 475:'La imprenta de Ibarra comienza a imprimir en1749'.

13 The British Library bas two copies: t 45 . f9 - i iand G.6266,7.

14 I. Ruiz Lasala, op. cit., p. g i . It should he noted,bowever, that the author seems not to haverealized that the three volumes issued six yearsafter Barcia's death are made up of sixteen essaysprinted in different years.

15 I. Ruiz Lasala, op. cit., pi. VII.