The printing press arrived in Mexico City in 1539, followed by Lima in 1581. Succeeding presses did not exist until 1640 in Puebla and 1660 in Guatemala. Presses in did not appear anywhere but the Viceroyalties of New Spain or Peru until the eighteenth century. (Calvo, Hortensia. “The Politics of Print: The Historiography of the Book in Early Spanish America.” Book History 6 (2003) 277-305. Doi:10.1353/bh.2004.0003).
Southern Methodist University's Bridwell Library: Faith and Devotion in Mexico
Curated exhibit on Catholic devotional beliefs and practices in Mexico in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as documented in images, novenas, sacred poetry, historical accounts, and a variety of other sources.
See especially the section on censorship in Mexico
Primeros Libros de las Americas
Collaborative project among international libraries which allows researchers to search for digitized versions of 16th c. Latin American books by owning institution (library), language, year, printer, author or keyword. There are also bibliographies available.
James Carter Brown [Brown University] Library Digital Book Collections
Collections Include:
+ Indigenous Languages Collection
+ Portugal and Brazil Collection
+ Spanish American Collection
Catálogo Colectivo de Marcas de Fuego
Collaborative Project of Mexican Libraries to help readers identify the Marcas de Fuego (brands) various institutions and printers used on early colonial Mexican books.
Texas A&M University Libraries Digital Book Reader
Digitized copies of 16th century texts at Texas A&M University Libraries
Southern Methodist University's Bridwell Library Dios y Su Pueblo
Guide to Bridwell Library's collection of nearly 400 Mexican religious imprints.
Ibero-American Electronic Text Series
Project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted to Latin American and Iberian works in the Humanities. Digitizes Latin American and Iberian texts from the Middle Ages to the present.
This is a multi-volume project capturing imprints from major Latin American Collections in Latin America and Beyond on microfilm (much of which is now digitized). Series (parts) of the collection including Mexican content are listed here. Most are available at one of the UC Libraries, as indicated below. In the few cases that they are not, the best way to locate them is by using WorldCat (OCLC)'s consortial global catalog. Please note that the link provided here is different from (and has more functionality than) clicking the WorldCat radio button in UC Library Search. Select "Accession Number" from the Search Index Drop-down options, and paste in the number indicated below.
Available online at UCSD
OCLC/WorldCat Accession Number: 785645835
Latin American history and culture: an archival record. Series I, Part 2, The Mexico Collection
Available online at UCSD
OCLC/WorldCat Accession Number: 1417638178
133 Reels Stored Offsite at the Southern UC storage facility (SRLF) F1760 .L38 2000
OCLC/WorldCat Accession Number: 45811515
No Local Holding OCLC/WorldCat Accession Number: 56099356
No Local Holding OCLC/WorldCat Accession Number: 54108910
246 Reels held at UC Berkeley
OCLC/WorldCat Accession Number: 65215712
