Luis de Granada, Conciones [volume 2], Antwerp, 1592, calf binding, from the library of El Escorial

LUIS DE GRANADA

Secundus tomus concionum de tempore, quae diebus dominicis, quartis & sextis feriis quadragesimae in ecclesia haberi solent (Quinque conciones de poenitentia). Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, widow and Jan Moretus, 1592

2 works in one volume, 8vo (167 x 103mm.), woodcut Plantin device on title-pages, contemporary calf binding, blind stamp of El Escorial library on both covers, gilt edges with the title lettered along foredge with the case number 11, head of spine slightly torn, extremities slightly rubbed

The books in El Escorial were arranged with the foredges facing out, providing an attractive visual display in the bookcases (see Great Bindings from the Spanish Royal Collections, pp. 28-29, for an illustration of cases 20-22 of the Escorial Library). The gilding of edges and the writing of foredge titles was usually carried out in the Escorial workshop (ibid., p.67). For other books from this library, see lots 154 and 174.

LITERATURE:

USTC 406914 & 406915

PROVENANCE:

Library of the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, blind stamp on covers and shelfmarks on verso of flyleaf, V.L.ii and 44.VI.11