The second half of the eighteenth century was an era of increased production and marketing of books and periodicals, as well as an expansion of readership. At that time, popular printed literature continued to be an important source of income for many book businesses that were specialized in this type of publications, very widely distributed works being favorite reading for a large public. Printer Manuel Martín integrated an old popular publishing genre into the modern literary and publishing context favorable to the short novel published in collections that emerged in the last third of the century.