Author Description

This volume contains 9 essays divided into 4 I. The Colonial Period (The Libraries of Colonial Spanish America; Book illustrations in Colonial Spanish America; Some Reconsiderations of the Origin in Printing in Sixteenth-Century Mexico). II. Libraries of the Caribbean (The Libraries of Puerto Rico; Library Development in English-Speaking West Indies; The First Non-Serial Puerto Rican Imprint). III. Bookbinding (Introductory Notes on the History of Bookbinding in Spanish America). IV. Library Resources and the Boo Trade (Resources for Research in Latin-American Literature in Southern Libraries; The Antiquarian Book Trade in Spain).