The control of the truth: the Murcia de la Llana, a family dealing with books editing

Abstract

The Murcia de la Llana family almost developed throughout a century one of the most significant tasks and as well more not knowing within the complicated process by which a manuscript had to pass until leaving the presss: the book correction. Through its hands they passed most of weitings of century XVII, many of which would later achieve a success without preceding case of the Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes. This study articulates on the basis of a series of the documentary news, many unpublished, that try to clarify the complex relation of kinships, as well as interesting data on the office of general book corrector.