Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea and the old prostitute Celestina).

Fernando de ROJAS (Author)

Juan Joffre (Printer)

Origin: Valencia, XVI c.
Biblioteca Nacional de España. Coedition.

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R-4870
Facsimile. Old Books. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.

84-87988-63-6

978-84-87988-63-9
4º
16 x 24 cm.
70+2 crd.
140+4 crd.
Spanish.
21st February 1514.
17th November 2000.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Literature.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish: author yet to be determined. Included in Bibliofilia Antigua VIII.
Only known copy in the world. Gothic script, beautiful title page , engraved initial, twenty-three xylographic engravings.

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One of the most important editions of Tragicomedia, La Celestina en 21 actos, is the Valencian work from 1514, carefully printed, and due to the fact that it incorporates a set of prints which are worth a careful study by one of the most specialists in Fernando de Rojas, Joseph T. Snow. It is a program (scheme), following the words of the reknown illustrative author from La Puebla de Montalbán (Toledo) which can be observed in this copy which replicates the only known copy in the world.

The original text of this book and its typescript of the first editions of the Comedia and later of the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea and the old prostitute Celestina) must be kept for specialists, because of its complexity.

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AC History of art / art & design styles
ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
ACND Renaissance art
AFF Drawing & drawings
AFH Prints & printmaking
AFJ Other graphic art forms
AFT Decorative arts
AGH Human figures depicted in art
DSBD Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
FRH Historical romance
HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
WCS Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter

1D Europe
1DSE Spain
1DSEG Castilla-La Mancha, Autonomous Community
1DSET Valenciana, Autonomous Community
2ADS Spanish
3JB c 1500 to c 1600