Editorial Salvat (Salvat Publisher) is a Spanish–Catalan publishing company created in 1898 in Barcelona. In the 20th century it was widely known for its encyclopedias. At present it belongs to the French group Hachette-Matra. The company Espasa Hermanos y Salvat, a forerunner of the publishing houses Espasa i Salvat, was created in 1869 by Manuel Salvat i Xivixell (1842-1901) and the brothers Pau (1835-1927) and Josep Espasa i Anguera (1840-1911). Manuel Salvat married Magdalena Espasa, his partners' sister, in 1872, and the new couple moved to the same house where the printing press was located on Carrer Robador. Pau Espasa retired from the company in 1877. In 1881 Josep Espasa reached an agreement with his brother-in-law Manuel Salvat to form Espasa y Compañía. In 1897 Salvat left the company and in 1898 he created Salvat e Hijo, in which his son, the architect Pau Salvat i Espasa, took part. When he died, Manuel Salvat was succeeded as director by his son Pau, who gave a major boost to the company. In his role as an architect, Pau Salvat was the author in 1916 of the modernist building of his publishing house, located at Carrer de Mallorca, 39. In its origins, the Salvat publishing house published works such as Hojas selectas, in the writers from Spain and America collaborated for about twenty years. Between 1906 and 1914 the 9 volumes of the Diccionario Salvat Enciclopédico Popular Ilustrado were published, and the 12 volumes of the Diccionario enciclopédico Salvat, as well as the Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana (1910) and the Historia del Arte (1914). The company set up a distributor together with Gustau Gili in Buenos Aires, where it opened its first American branch. More information...
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