Poesías escogidas de nuestros cancioneros y romanceros antiguos. Continuacion de la coleccion de d. ramon fernandez

Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796. In two volumes.[2], xxiv, 335pp, [7]; [2], 384pp, [8]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, gilt supralibros to upper and lower boards, gilt initials 'R.O.S.' to spines. Lightly rubbed, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, later bookplates of Thomas Gaisford to FEPs, volume statements on titles partially deleted to convert 'XVI' and 'XVII' to 'I' and 'II' respectively, scattered foxing. An anthology of fifteenth-century Spanish poetry, edited by philologist, translator, and literary editor Pedro Estala (1757- 1815), under the pseudonym of Ramón Fernández, originally published as volumes XVI and XVII in his Colección de poetas españoles series. Estala's monumental compilation consisted of total of twenty volumes published between 1786 and 1798. This edition of these two, self-contained volumes, is that expanded upon by poet Manuel José Quintana (1772-1857), to which he adds his own commentary on the works contained within. . First edition. 8vo.