THE WOMEN OF THE BIBLE. ROCA Y CORNET. 1850

Description:
- Two volumes, written in Spanish. Both religious and recreational books, interesting for their content and artistic visuals, with engravings made in steel, chalcographic, and of excellent quality.
- The work, recast by Joaquín Roca y Cornet, is adorned with exquisite plates depicting the most famous women of both the Old and New Testaments, engraved in steel by the most renowned artists in Paris and London.
- They contain multiple black and white lithographs, all full-page, outside the text.
- Two volumes. The first with 18 steel engravings, and the second volume with 10 engravings. All of them of women from the Bible.
- In front of each engraving there is a pink onion skin paper that was used in the past as protection.
- In the second volume, we have added the first engraving, “The Pythoness of Endor”, together with its respective onion skin paper. This particular engraving was not originally included, so we purchased the original and added it, achieving a perfect result.
Parts of the content:
- Copies in Spanish, with the complete text.
- Light blue endpapers. Three flyleaves. Half-title page. Tracing paper. Chromolithographic frontispiece. Cover. Legal page. Dedication 1. Dedication 2. Introduction. Contents. Index. Guidelines for placing plates. Three flyleaves. Light blue endpapers.
Book description:
- Very well executed sewn bindings, with guillotined and gilt edges, from the mid-19th century.
- The text is printed in single-colour black, with very good ink, well centred and with good margins. All the engravings have their respective onion skin paper.
- Books printed on thick white paper of very good quality.
- Hard covers in full leather, with embossed binding, of high quality. Dry iron and gold.

Conservation and Damage:
- The books are in very good condition and are almost intact. Only the first volume has a few small rust spots at the end of the volume, which do not affect it. A couple of booklets are slightly separated from the spine, but otherwise they are in very good condition.
- Edges are clean and free of stains, with gilt edges.
- The binding is leather, embossed.
- The corners are slightly damaged with slight creases and folds.
- The book has not suffered any external damage such as attacks by insects, rodents, etc.
- The book shows the wear and tear typical of its age.

Comments:
- Both the measurements and the weight are approximate.
- The colours in the photos are not exactly the same as the actual colours.
- The book for sale is the one shown in the photos. The description is not a detailed account of the book.
- The information provided here is based on personal opinions that have not been verified.