BOOK: LAUREATES OF SPAIN 1936-1939

Description:
Quality: - Well-executed sewn binding
- Good quality thick paper
- Good quality publisher's cloth hard covers
Condition: Good
Content Description:
- This book, written in Spanish, discusses the knights awarded the Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand in the Spanish Civil War, between 1936 and 1939. - Contains multiple plates, all separate from the text. It also contains drawings both separate from the text and inserted within the text, at the beginning and end of chapters. All in color.
Contents:
- Copy in Spanish, with the complete text.
- Endpaper with emblem. Flyleaf. Half-title page. Title page. Legal page. Address. Literary contributors. Dedication. Laureates. Second title page. Plate of Franco. Prologue. Laureate Knights. Contents. Table of contents. Legal page. Two flyleaves. Flyleaf with emblem.
Book Description:
- Well-made sewn binding with guillotine edges, from the first half of the 20th century.
- The text is printed in monochrome black, with excellent ink quality, well-centered, and with good margins.
- Book printed on thick, off-white paper.
- Hardcovers in full publisher's cloth. Blind tooling.

Conservation and Damage:
- The book is in good condition.
- The spine is slightly detached. It retains many of the original tracing papers that covered the plates.
- The edges have minimal dirt and stains.
- The plates themselves are free of rust; only the tracing papers covering them are rusty, and if they are not, the preceding page is.
- Overall, the book is quite clean, with almost no rust.
- The corners are slightly worn with minor creases and folds.
- The book has not suffered external damage such as insect or rodent damage.
- The book shows wear consistent with its age.

Comments:
- Both the measurements and weight are approximate.
- The colors in the photos are not exactly the same as the actual colors.
- The book for sale is the one shown in the photos. The description is not a detailed account of the book.
- The data provided here are unverified personal opinions.