LA IMPRENTA Y LIBRERÍA DE LA VIUDA E HIJOS DE MAYOL Y SUS JOYAS DEL TEATRO

Abstract

In the mid-nineteenth century, in Barcelona, the widow of Joaquín Mayol, with the help of her children, took forward the print and bookshop bequeathed by her husband after his death. Consolidated its prestige as bookbinders, printers and bookshellers, the Mayol, who specialized in the system of sale by delivery and subscription, edited several collections of works in the decade of the forties; among witch stands out, for the number of published texts and the period of time covered (1847-1853), an important collection of theater pieces witch they called «Joyas del Teatro», wich would become one of the most original and representative dramatic series of Romantic Spain.

Keywords

• print
• bookshop
• Theater Masterpieces
• Mayol’s Widow
• collection
• Romanticism.