BERGAMÍN, José.
Mangas y capirotes. (España en su laberinto teatral del XVII).
[Madrid], Editorial Plutarco, 1933.
8vo, pp. 223, [6]; uncut and unopened in the original printed wrappers, wrappers lightly spotted and dust-soiled.
First edition, a collection of essays on 17th-century Spain, centred on Lope de Vega.
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