Figure 221
Title-page of Bordazar’s Plantificacion, Valencia
From Google Books (scan)
1732
In 1731, a royal decree again approved the native printing of Spanish liturgical books, and called for a discussion of ways and means to this end. Bordazar had already submitted to Philip V a carefully drawn-up memorial in which he represented that types, paper, and ink could be as easily procured, and books as successfully produced, in Spain as in the Netherlands, and he now received the royal authority to print this document. This he did in the year 1732, at Valencia…in a handsomely printed tractate of some twenty folio pages.