The social spread of epistolary stylebooks. Girona (Spain), XVIIIth century

The author analyses the social spread of epistolary stylebooks in the Catalan city of Girona during the xviiith century. The main sources used in his research had been epistolary stylebooks found both in the printing presses and in the bookshops as well as in the private libraries and in the public auctions celebrated in the city of Gerona during the XVIIIth century. This article also focuses on the typology and contents of these epistolary stylebooks.