[3] 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.

[2] During this time he published Surgery, Theoretical-Practical Treatise on Surgical Pathology and Clinic (1925), the History of the World (1926) by Josep Pijoan, the Wery Agricultural Encyclopedia (1928) and the Saved Geographical Atlas (1928).

In 1932 he separated the printing business from publishing, creating the company Imprenta Hispano-Americana S.A.[2] The Spanish Civil War and the postwar period brought censorship and economic hardship, and the company did not recover until the mid-1950s, when it intensified its presence in Latin America, with subsidiaries in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia, and edited the encyclopedia El mundo de los niños (1958), and published in Catalan the Costumari Català (1950–1956), by Joan Amades, in five volumes, republished in 1982.

At the end of the 1960s he closed the printing house in Barcelona, which he moved to Sant Boi de Llobregat and in 1968 he opened Gráficas Estella, an industrial plant located in Navarre.

He allied with De Agostini to serve the French-speaking, German-speaking and English-speaking markets, successfully in France where Manuel Salvat, the founder's grandson, was among the first publishers.