Figure 239
Page from Yriarte’s Obras Sueltas: Mena, Madrid
From a copy in the Boston Public Library (facsimile), HathiTrust (scan)
1774
…published at the expense of his friends, and honoured by subscriptions from the Infantes Gabriel, Antonio, and Luis. It is a most beautiful piece of printing, and one of the very best examples of the Spanish revival. The delicate but virile roman, with an italic superior in style to that used in the De Numis, its exquisite paper, ample, well-disposed margins, and the great reserve of arrangement make a distinguished book, and one of classical effect. This came from the press of Franciso Manuel de Mena, of Madrid, in 1774, and suggests how much good work was being done in Spain, at that moment, by printers whose names are forgotten.