Why was this Sacramental banned by the Inquisition
I don’t know. In my research I found very few English-language sources dealing with the substance of the text (as opposed to the fact that it’s the first book by Spanish printers), one of them mentioned that it had been banned, but did not mention why. Presumably something in it was theologically unsound./unpopular, but I don’t know what.
Kathy Haas
The Jane Austen note is interesting. Just curious-- when did this library triple decker publishing of novels stop. Was it mainly British publishers .
A good question, which I had to hunt for an answer too. It does seem to have been a primarily British phenomenon, because it was driven by the power of the circulating libraries, which were more prevalent and powerful there than elsewhere. The short answer is that the form collapsed pretty abruptly in 1894, when the two largest of these businesses announced a new limit on the price they would pay to publishers, who decided they couldn’t afford it and just stopped issuing them. Two reliable web pages that cover this in fairly brief form are
http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/pu_novel.html (a section of a British Library online exhibition Aspects of the Victorian Book)
http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/mudie.html (from the Victorian Web, a great resource which grew from a project at Brown)
I reached these pages in a roundabout way from things found via the web site of The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), (http://www.sharpweb.org), which is a good place to start for questions of this sort. If Chris wants to pursue other aspects of this question she’ll find useful leads on all of these sites. I’d also recommend them to other docents who’re interested in pursuing their own researches, and will always be happy to discuss what they find there.
Elizabeth Fuller
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