1966 Catálogo de los Manuscritos Poéticos Castellanos (Siglos 15-17), Complete

Description: A. Rodríguez-Moñino & Maria Brey Mariño. Catálogo de los Manuscritos Poéticos Castellanos (Siglos XV, XVI, & XVII) de The Hispanic Society of America. New York: The Hispanic Society of America. Complete Three Volumes. Vol I: 1965, 632 pp; Vol. II: 1965, 608 pp; Vol. III: 1966, 620 pp. First Editions, Softcover uniform binding measures 11 x 75”, large octavo. In fair condition. Paper covers toned at all edges from normal shelf-wear. Covers also lightly scuffed with some small chips at all edges. Red & black lettering on front covers remains crisp. Some finger-soiling to covers. Heads and tails of spines bumped. Spines tanned from sun-exposure. Normal age-related toning throughout text-block; mostly to edges of leaves. Some instances of uncut top edges throughout all volumes Bindings intact. Please see photos. María Brey Mariño (1910 - 1995), Spanish librarian, bibliographer, literary critic and translator. She married civilly in Valencia on January 30, 1939 with the bibliophile and professor Antonio Rodríguez Moñino. Her husband was purged by the Franco regime, his professorship was taken away and he was disqualified from teaching for twenty years. She herself was anonymously denounced and purged in 1940, so that she was disqualified and deferred from holding positions of trust for five years and was transferred to the Archive of the Treasury Delegation of Huelva. In 1943 she asked for and was granted a position in the Library of the Cortes, but provisionally until 1961. Since 1950, she worked as an archivist for José Lázaro and the Lázaro Galdiano Museum, where her husband was also a librarian. In 1961 the couple moved to New York and she participated in the preparation of the Catalog of the Castilian poetic manuscripts existing in the library of The Hispanic Society of America (15th, 16th and 17th centuries) of the Hispanic Society of America, of which her husband had been named Vice President. A complete set in three volumes. First Edition. FORN-SHELF-0673-BB-2406-HK1685

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