[47] Medina, p. xix.
[48] Retana had published many of his findings in La Politico de España en Filipinas, Madrid, 1891–98; in his edition of Joaquín Martínez de Zuñiga, Estadismo de las Islas Filipinas, Madrid, 1893; and in the Archivo del Bibliófilo Filipino, Madrid, 1895–97.
[49] Retana, cols. 7–8. We shall speak of Juan de Vera later.
[50] Thomas Cooke Middleton, Some Notes on the Bibliography of the Philippines, Philadelphia, 1900, pp. 32–33.
[51] Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca Filipina, Washington, 1903, pp. 9–10.
[52] Medina, La Imprenta en Manila desde sus Orígenes hasta 1810 Adiciones y Ampliacones, Santiago de Chile, 1904.
[53] P. & G., pp. xxi–xxvi.
[54] B. & R., LIII, p. 11.
[55] Artigas, op. cit. He admitted that the celebration should have been held in 1902.
[56] Retana, Orígenes de la Imprenta Filipina, Madrid, 1911. Retana had also published between 1897 and 1911 several other books which contained some information about the early Philippine press, the Aparato Bibliográfico in 1906 and his edition of Morga in 1909, both of which have already been cited.