Eugenia Roldan Vera, Humboldt-Universitat Berlin, Germany
' This book [...] will widen remarkably the horizons of British book historians.' Rare Books Newsletter 'Roldan Vera's monograph is a major contribution to bibliographical scholarship and intellectual history. Original and thought-provoking...' Bibliographical Society of America 'This detailed and well-prepared study draws on a wealth of documentary evidence to trace the important role played by British publishers [...] in the dissemination of knowledge in the emergent Spanish American republics... The authors is to be congratulated on a well-documented study of an important but neglected area of Latin American bibliography.' The Library 'This fascinating and well-written book, [...] will be of interest to scholars of the British book trade and historians of nineteenth-century Spanish America alike.' Journal of the Printing Historical Society '... the book is clearly written and thoroughly documented, and it would be well placed in graduate seminars. For those who are working in the field of Latin American print culture, Roldan Vera's study is essential reading.' Hispanic American Historical Review