Bibliography as a discipline has produced a tremendous amount of scholarly output since the beginning of the twentieth century. English studies in Spain are perhaps not aware of its reach. The object of this study was to draw on their historical and descriptive principles and provide a bibliographical note on the seven titles on Rhetoric and Criticism that can be found in the Historical Library of Santa Cruz, Valladolid, the work of Daniel Webb, Edward Gibbon, Henry Home, Alexander Gerard, George Campbell, and Hugh Blair. This will hopefully help me highlight the importance of its collection of early books printed in Great Britain, intellectually very advanced at a time in which higher education in Spain could not but fail to emerge from its state of decay.
La disciplina de la Bibliografía lleva produciendo una enorme cantidad de aportaciones académicas desde comienzos del siglo XX. En España, los Estudios Ingleses parecen no ser conscientes del alcance que ha tenido. Este estudio tiene por objeto emplear sus vertientes histórica y descriptiva para ofrecer una nota bibliográfica de los siete títulos de retórica inglesa que se encuentran en la Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz, en Valladolid, obras de Daniel Webb, Edward Gibbon, Henry Home, Alexander Gerard, George Campbell y Hugh Blair. Pretendo con esto que se reconozca la importancia de la biblioteca y la modernidad intelectual de los impresos publicados en Gran Bretaña que alberga, en un periodo en el que la educación superior española luchó sin éxito por salir de su estado de decadencia.
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