TY - JOUR AU - Ivan Molina Jimenez AU - Arnaldo Moya Gutierrez AB - Identifying and classifying the forms published during the nineteenth century, by Luis Dobles Segreda and José Line, is the starting point of current research on public and private libraries, trade and the production of printed matter and the deployment of the press. The sources used are of three types: succession inventories of private collections; lists of existing books or purchases and service or printing accounts of public institutions; and catalogs of titles of sale of bookstores or printers and journalistic announcements of importers. Documentary body that allows, at different times, to weigh the size and variety of the bookstore offer, the social conditions of the publishing production and the print trade, and the magnitude of the consumption of works and their differentiation according to occupational category and rural space and urban BT - Revista de Historia LA - Spanish N2 - Identifying and classifying the forms published during the nineteenth century, by Luis Dobles Segreda and José Line, is the starting point of current research on public and private libraries, trade and the production of printed matter and the deployment of the press. The sources used are of three types: succession inventories of private collections; lists of existing books or purchases and service or printing accounts of public institutions; and catalogs of titles of sale of bookstores or printers and journalistic announcements of importers. Documentary body that allows, at different times, to weigh the size and variety of the bookstore offer, the social conditions of the publishing production and the print trade, and the magnitude of the consumption of works and their differentiation according to occupational category and rural space and urban PY - 1992 SP - 241 EP - 62 T2 - Revista de Historia TI - Leyendo Lecturas: Documentos para la Historia del Libro en Costa Rica a Comienzos del Siglo XX VL - 26 ER -