Subscription to Literary Works in Spain During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Booksellers and Institutions

Abstract

This work tries to analyse the subscriptions in Spain through fourteen works of literature from the second half of the eighteenth century. Works by Torres Villarroel, Tomás de Iriarte, Lope de Vega, Ramón de la Cruz, Capmany, Vaca de Guzmán, Castrillón, and Cervantes' Don Quixote, and translations of English novels from the end of the century constitute the corpus. These are analysed under a double approach: through professional subscribers (booksellers, printers and retailers) and institutional subscribers (libraries of convents, academies, universities and schools).