ANTONIO DE SANCHA, 1720-1790:

A TENTATIVE LIST OF HOLDINGS

IN THE REFERENCE DIVISION OF THE

BRITISH LIBRARY

H. G. WHITEHEAD

T H E remarkable improvement in printing standards in eighteenth-century Spain isgenerally considered to have been due to the work of Joaquin Ibarra. However, an almostequal place must be accorded to his contemporary Antonio de Sancha, whose printingskills came to rival Ibarra's, and whose literary formation and enthusiasms possiblyoutstripped those of the latter. Certainly the enterprise—sometimes risky, but alwayscourageous—Sancha showed in publishing large collections of historical, poetic, andscientific works has no equal in eighteenth-century Spain.

Details of his early life are almost non-existent.^ He was born on i i July i72oinTorija,a village in the province of Guadalajara, the son of Fabian de Sancha and Maria Viejo,peasants of modest means. Nothing is known about his early education—presumably heattended a local school—until the year 1739, when he left for Madrid. It seems likely thathe entered the book trade. In any case, in 1745 he was sufficiently well established to marryGertrudis Sanz, the sister of Antonio Sanz, who was well known as a printer, particularlyduring the years 1740-60 when he had a shop in the Calle de la Paz—the same street inwhich Sancha, in 1768, was to set up his first shop. ^

Fairly early on, Sancha must have learned bookbinding, and by 1757 his reputation wassuch that he was named binder to the Academy of History, and shortly afterwards to theRoyal Library and the Spanish Academy. In 1935 Pedro Vindel published a catalogue offinishing tools used by Sancha.^ These tools, several of which can be found on an onlaidand gold-tooled white calf binding in the Henry Davis Gift to the British Library (fig. i),"were also used by Antonio's son Gabriel.

In 1760 or 1761 Antonio took this fourteen-year-old son to Paris to further hiseducation.^ Five years later Gabriel was appointed binder to the Camara and from 1773 heran the bindery in his father's publishing-house. In 1782 he was sent abroad again and theinfluences he underwent both in Paris and in London are clearly discernible in his work.^

It is not clear how long Sancha senior stayed in the French capital. He was certainlyback in Madrid by 1768, for, in that year, as has been noted, he had his own bookshop inthe Calle de la Paz. In 1771 he bought the Ramirez printing-shop, situated in the Calle deBarrionuevo, from the heirs of Gabriel Ramirez, one of the leading printers of the middleyears of the century. Finally, in 1773, having decided to set up as a printer, Sancha settledin the Aduana Vieja, in the Plaza de la Lefia. Here he was to spend the rest of his life; the

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establishment survived as a printing-works until well into the nineteenth century. It isfrom this point that the business began to expand and his printing career may be said tohave begun. It has been pointed out before^ how remarkable it is that in the course ofseventeen years Sancha, on his own and at his own expense, should have been able to printso many works of which the paper, type, and plates were of outstanding quality. No doubthe was encouraged in many of his enterprises, not all of which were financially successful,by the writers and scholars who began to frequent his house.

He was a man with ambition, both for himself and for his sons, as his journey to Parisshows. Nor, as a business man, was he afraid of risks, as when he reopened a damaged andabandoned antimony mine at Santa Cruz de Mudela. As he said, the output from the minegave a much-needed impetus to Spanish typefounding at a time when the high standardsof printing being achieved had helped to produce skilled punch-cutters.^

Sancha showed courage too when he attempted the pubhcation of a translation andadaptation of the French Encyclopedic Methodique. The publication of this vast work, withthe full title of Encyclopedic Methodique, ou par ordre de matieres, par me Societe de gens delettres, began in Paris in 1782; it ran eventually into 166 volumes and was not finished until1832. It had a great success in France, but in Spain the Inquisitor General ordered thesuspension of Sancha's translation, pending corrections and modifications.^ Threevolumes were in fact issued: the Historia Natural de los animales, the Historta Natural delas Aves, and the Diccionario degramaticay Uteratura. These appeared in 1788, but the restof the work, as planned by Sancha, was not printed until after his death: two volumes in1791, four in 1792, two in 1794, and a volume of plates also in 1794.

Doubtless it was thanks to the literary 'tertulia' already referred to that Sanchaconceived the idea of publishing a collection of all the best Castilian poetry of the sixteenthand seventeenth centuries; and who better to compile such an anthology than his'contertuliano' Juan Lopez de Sedano, a playwright of uncertain ability but with a vaststore of literary knowledge? The first volume of this Parnaso ^^^^wo/appeared in 1768, but,as at this date Sancha had no press of his own, this volume and the four succeedingvolumes were printed by his future rival Ibarra. In 1772 Sancha was able to print forhimself the sixth volume, from his new premises in the Barrionuevo (fig. 2).

The Parnaso espanol has been highly praised (by Cotarelo, amongst others) as one ofthe most elegant books to appear at this time in Spain. It is indeed a model of elegantprinting, even if the selection of texts for inclusion, not to mention their haphazardarrangement, calls for censure. For these reasons perhaps, or maybe because granderprojects were already forming in his mind, Sancha abandoned the work in 1778 at

volume nine. ,In 1774 there appeared the two-volume edition of Esteban Manuel de Villegas s

Erdticasy traduccion de Boecio. Edited by Vicente de los Rios, who wrote the introductorylife of the author, this is generally held to be the best edition of the work. The title-pageswere engraved on copper by Salvador y Carmona, with surrounding doves, clouds,garlands, torch, and lyre; they reminded Updike^^ of'attractive Parisian volumes of poetryby fashionable versifiers\ The text, however, is largely undecorated and almost modern in

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appearance: a style, indeed, which Sancha adopted for all his editions of the Spanishclassics (fig. 3).

The sequel to the Parnaso espanol was the Coleccidn de poesias castellanas antenores alsigh quince^ published in four volumes between 1779 and 1782. The editor was TomasAntonio Sanchez, who paid generous tribute to the printer's altruism in publishing hiscollection of early poetry. ^

In 1777 Sancha had begun the printing of the works of Cervantes, realizing no doubt apersonal ambition to include Spain's most prestigious author in his own catalogue. Thus,in that same year, there appeared his four-volume edition oiDon Qiiijote, modelled on the1771 Ibarra edition, but with wider margins. The rivalry between these two great printers(which resulted in nothing but benefit to printing standards) spurred Sancha on to issue aQuixote which would be entirely his own.^^ This work, confided to the editorial care ofAntonio Pellicer, was never seen by Sancha: it was issued in 1797, after Sancha's death,and with the imprint of his son Gabriel. Six copies were printed on vellum, and the BritishLibrary has one of these.

Four years after his Don Quijote Sancha issued his edition of the Trabajos de Persiles ySigismunda^ often considered to be the best edition ever produced, both in typographicalexcellence and in textual accuracy (fig. 4). This was followed in 1783 by the NovelasEjemplares and in 1784 by the Galatea and the Viaje del Parnaso.

A splendid edition appeared in 1783-4, in two quarto volumes, of Antonio de Solis,Historia de la Conquista de Mexico. This has, with some justice, been described as Sancha'smasterpiece. Updike praises the printer's ingenuity in arranging the complicatedprefatory matter, and draws attention to the engraved lettering beneath each full-pageplate: 'The first page is faced by a portrait of Cortes after Titian; the opening page is reallyornamented by its engraved head-piece and initial; the type of the text is a large, beautifulold style, printed on laid paper in a sharp, brilliant impression. A series of twenty-fourdelightful and rather ingenuous full-page engravings designed by Josef Ximeno arescattered through the work, each Book of which begins with an engraved head-piece andends with a tail-piece. The engraved lettering beneath the full-page plates shows howmagnificent was the style of calligraphy which still survived in Spain. This volume whichSir William Stirling Maxwell called "the triumph of the press of Sancha", much increasesone's respect for him' (fig. 5).

Almost equally remarkable is the sumptuous Spanish-Latin-Arabic dictionary issuedin 1787. The author, Francisco Caries, was a Franciscan missionary who had spentseventeen years in the Middle East and was an accomplished Arabic speaker. The work,Diccionario espanol-latino-arabigo^ por el P. Fr. Francisco Canes . . . misionero y Lector quefue de arabe en el Colegio de Damasco^ consists of three large folio volumes of about 600pages each, impeccably printed on linen paper. There are three copies in the BritishLibrary. Canes, who had already published an Arabic grammar in 1775 (printed inMadrid by Antonio Perez de Soto), states in the prologue to the dictionary that the workwas financed from funds held by the 'Obra pia de los Santos Lugares', one of whose aimswas to provide Arabic language instruction to the members of religious orders living in or

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Spanish historical studies at this time were hindered by the lack of scholarly editions ofthe early chronicles. Sancha, with typical enthusiasm, resolved to issue a uniform series ofthe principal chronicles, whether previously printed or still in manuscript. Preparatorywork was entrusted to Eugenio de Llaguno y Amirola, a scholar whose administrativetalents led to his appointment as Minister of Justice.

In 1779 Sancha published Lopez de Ayala: Cronicas de los reyes de Castilla Don Pedro^Don Enrique 11^ Don Juan /, Don Enrique III. His last published volume in the series cameout in 1787 and was Cronica del Rey D. Enrique el Quarto\ he died before he was able tofinish the series. Nevertheless, the seven volumes he published remain a splendidmemorial to a great printer. Some copies were issued on large paper and are now very rareand valued; but even the copies on ordinary paper are very fine.

Of Sancha's less successful ventures, the Enciclopedia Metodica of 1788 has alreadybeen mentioned. The three volumes published in that year (in itself a remarkableachievement) represent in their respective fields only a fraction of what would have beenneeded to complete the survey. For instance, the volume devoted to literature andgrammar comprised the letter A only: clearly, a dozen more volumes at least would havebeen needed to complete this section. It is not surprising, therefore, that this hopelesslyprolix work was a commercial failure. Sancha, however, had clearly expected to make ahandsome profit, for in his will he specifically bequeathed funds accruing fromsubscriptions to his son Gabriel.^''"

After Sancha's death his two surviving sons, Gabriel and Antonio (a third son, Manuel,had died before his father), worked together for a few years, but in 1797 they separated.Gabriel stayed with the firm, which was already in his name, and moved to the Calle delLobo. Here he worked until his death in 1820.

Rodriguez-Monino lists 570 volumes printed by Sancha during the years 1771-90.Of these, the British Library possesses some 163, in one or more copies: by nomeans an unrepresentative collection of the works of a leading Spanish printer ofhis day.

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1 See my article in the British Library Journal., vi, 2(1980).

2 Details are taken from E. Cotarelo y Mori,Biografia de D. Antonio de Sancha (Madrid,1924).

3 P. Vindel Alvarez, D. Antonio de Sancha., encua-dernador (Madrid, 1935).

4 On: Estado Militar de Espafia ([Madrid]:Imprenta Real, 1783).

5 Campomanes, in his Discurso sobre el foment0 dela industria popular (printed by Sancha, 5 vols.,1774-7), seems to imply that Sancha went to Paristo perfect his own skills, and thereafter sent histhree sons, Gabriel, Antonio, and Manuel one byone (vol. i, p. 344, note: 'Don Antonio de Sancha,celebre encuadernador y librero, emprendio unviage a Paris, para perfeccionarse; envio a sushijos sucesivamente; despues de haberles hecho

instruir en el dibuxo. De esta forma ha sacadounos utiles profesores de la imprenta, y de laencuadernacion'). M. Lopez Serrano, 'La en-cuadernacion madrilena en la epoca de CarlosIV, Archivo Espanol de Arte, xxiii (Madrid,1950), p. 119 states that Gahriel was given agovernment g:rant to learn the art of bookbinding.

6 M. Lopez Serrano, 'La encuadernacion madri-lena durante el reinado de Carlos IIP, ArchivoEspafiol de Arte., xviii (Madrid, 1945}, pp. t-T6;idem, art. cit., Archivo Espafiol de Arte., xxiii(1950), pp. 115-31; idem,'Noticiasdeimpresoresmadrilefios', Revista de Bibliografi'a Nacwnal, vii(Madrid, 1946}, pp. 391-9; M. M. Foot, 'Englishand Foreign Bookbindings 9', The Book Collector.,xxviii (1979), pp. 256-7.

7 Notably in the article 'Imprenta Espanola' in ElAriista., tom. iii (Madrid, 1836).

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8 'Sacandosc hoy pedazos de este semimetal de diezy catorce iirrobas de peso; cuya abundancia esmuy conducente para las muchas fundiciones deletra que se hacen en Espana desde que, con elfomento que logra el arte de la imprenta, tenemosbuenos grabadores de punzones para matrices deCiiracteres.'

Q Details of this episode are given by J. Sarrailh,UEspagne eclairee de la seconde moitii du XVIII^Slide (Paris, 1954), p. 301.

10 D. B. Updike, Printing Types., 2nd edn. 2 vols.(Oxford, 1937).

11 'Ahora que ya poseo una mediana coleccion depoesias anteriores al siglo quince, be concebidoesperanzas de darla a luz, mediante la generosadisposicion con que se ofrece con su prensa y ex-pensas D Antonio de Sancha...' (T. A. Sanchez,Coleccion de poesias castellanas, 1779: Prologo).

12 This is made quite clear in the dedicatory epistle(to the Count of Floridablanca) of the NovelasEjemplares: 'Seguire con la Calatea y el Viaje delParnaso., y finalizare con la Vida de Don Quixotede la Mancha: todo baxo los auspicios de V.E., aeuyo influxo debe la Nacion los adelantamientosque nadie ignora...'.

13 See E. Cotarelo y Mori, op. cit., pp. 81-3, for afull description of the work. For a history of the'Obra pia de los Santos Lugares', see theEnciclopedia Universal Ilustrada (Espasa), vol.xlii, under 'Patronato. —Real Patronato de losSantos Lugares'.

14 This will was dated 30 August 1790, immediatelybefore a journey to Cadiz, where he died on30 November. The will is quoted by Cotarelo,op. cit., pp. 91-4.

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