Desde las civilizaciones antiguas hasta los hitos del siglo XX.

: Salvat pioneered the business model of selling knowledge in affordable weekly installments (fascículos) at newsstands. This made expensive, leather-bound encyclopedias accessible to the working class for the first time.

The story began in when Manuel Salvat and the Espasa brothers formed the precursor to what would become Editorial Salvat . By the early 20th century, Salvat had established itself as a titan of high-quality printing and modernist design.

The encyclopedia evolved significantly through several distinct iterations:

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