Creator
Sallust.
Title
La conjuración de Catilina y La guerra de Jugurta.
Coverage
Madrid
Publisher
Joaquín Ibarra
Date
1772.
Description
As printer to the Spanish court in Madrid Joaquín Ibarra (1725–1785) developed an international reputation for his elegantly classical approach to book design, influenced by the work of François-Ambroise Didot in France and Giambattista Bodoni in Italy. His masterpiece is this 1772 edition in Spanish and Latin of Sallust’s La conjuración de Catilina y La guerra de Jugurta, in which Ibarra combines a traditional richness of material and illustration reminiscent of the French Imprimerie Royale with a strikingly “modern’’ typeface of his own design.