Aedos, an abbreviation of the Agència Editora i Distribuïdora d’Obres Selectes (Publishing and Distribution Agency of Select Works), was a publishing house founded in Barcelona in 1947 by Josep M. Cruzet and later managed by his wife, Maria Borràs de Quadras.
+ informationJosep Maria Cruzet collection. Editorial Aedos at the Biblioteca de Catalunya
The Biblioteca de Catalunya purchased this collection from Sebastià Borràs, one of the directors of Llibreria Catalònia. It contains both professional documentation – from the Llibreria Catalònia, Casa del Libro, Editorial Selecta and Editorial Aedos – and personal documents. It comprises 105 boxes which contain reports, bylaws, account books, homages to authors, documentation on collections, translations, censorship papers, literary awards, etc.
Catalogue of publishers and booksellers from the Bergnes de las Casas collection (Biblioteca de Catalunya)
More information and documentation on the works produced
Catalogue of publishers of Catalonia from 1940 to 1975 (Biblioteca de Catalunya)
Llanas, Manuel. L'Edició a Catalunya. Segle XX (1939-1975). Barcelona: Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya, 2005.
Aedos, an abbreviation of the Agència Editora i Distribuïdora d’Obres Selectes (Publishing and Distribution Agency of Select Works), was a publishing house founded in Barcelona in 1947 by Josep M. Cruzet and later managed by his wife, Maria Borràs de Quadras.
Created as a complement to Editorial Selecta, it was devoted to publishing books in both Spanish (art, biographies and agriculture and animal husbandry) and Catalan (history, geography, folklore and biographies). It launched its Catalan publications in 1950, including the Biblioteca Biogràfica Catalana and Enciclopèdia Catalana collections. In 1953 it started the Aedos Prize for Catalan Biography, which was awarded yearly until 1964, when it began to be awarded every two years.
The editions were not noteworthy for their illustrations, although some works have images that serve as decoration or guides.
Example of a page illustrated as a guide. Page 37 of Juscafresa, Baudilio. 500 especies de árboles y arbustos: reproducción y multiplicación. Barcelona: Aedos, 1962.
Pages 245, 246, 247 of the work: Carbonell Razquin, Mateu. Tratado de vinicultura: anexo sobre vinagres: premio agrícola aedos. Barcelona: Aedos, 1970, promoting some of the publishing house's collections.
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The books published by Aedos include historical, biographical and literary works, along with agricultural or botanical topics.
Frontispiece and title page
Frontispiece and title page
Cover and title page