First Printing Press in Spain

1476

German printers established a press at Valencia and began issuing books in Spanish, Catalan, and Latin. Within a generation, Spanish printing would spread to Seville, Burgos, Salamanca, and Zaragoza. Iberian readers acquired their first locally-printed books in the same years Isabella was consolidating Castile. The spread of printing across Iberia coincided with the Reconquista's final phase, and many early Spanish books served the expanding state.