Oficina Alvares Ribeiro: uma família de impressores, editores, livreiros e papeleiros, do Porto e de Vizela (Portugal), do século XVIII ao XX.

• Main Author: Antero Ferreira
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: por
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/151114
• topic: Artes gráficas, Humanidades; Graphic arts, Humanities

The central aim of this doctoral dissertation is to study the family businesses of the Alvares Ribeiro family (referred to here as OAR), originating from Vizela and Porto, where they also settled, with an important typographic and papermaking industrial background, over the course of three centuries (1760-1935). "Oficina Alvares Ribeiro - a family firm of printers, publishers, booksellers and papermakers from Porto and Vizela (Portugal), from the 18th to 20th centuries", existed through three remarkable political periods, from the Josephine (or Pombaline) era to Salazarism, through the final monarchies and the First Republic (1911), and ending in the Estado Novo (1926), sprinkled as they were with significant events such as the earthquake of 1755, the Napoleonic Invasions of 1807-10 and the successive civil wars, from Vintism (1820-23) to the period of the Regeneration of the Monarchy (1852-68). The study plan that we have drawn up is centred on a tripartite scheme that covers: in volumes one and two, an introduction, the historical and global vision of the business activity of the OAR (in parallel with other national and foreign events of great significance), the methodological instruments used and an exhaustive study of the life and work of the founder of the OAR, António Álvares Ribeiro Guimarães (1731-74); in volume three, two extra-thematic studies but complementary to this thesis: the first dated Portuguese printer (Oporto, 1497) and the first publisher and character foundry in Portugal (Lisbon, 1730/2); in volumes four and five, our conclusions, sources and bibliography, a glossary and the index of authors in the works printed by the OAR. This thesis is the first intensive study of a Portuguese dynasty of printers and papermakers between the 18th and 20th centuries, covering four generations over 175 years of uninterrupted activity during three centuries, 98 years of printing activity, 146 years of papermaking from three paper mills and more than a dozen different facilities in two cities. KEY WORDS: typography, graphic arts, paper industry, printing, Oficina Alvares Ribeiro