Monografia: Las Obras de José Guadalupe Posada Grabador Mexicano

introduction by Diego Rivera

edited by Frances Toor, Paul O'Higgins, Blas Vanegas Arroyo 

First edition, text in Spanish and English.  Mexico:  Mexican Folkways, 1930  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Olive gray covers with red and black text and illustration.   
• Boards show some wear to shoulders, smudges, bumping to back cover, scuffing, edgewear. Corners are scuffed, frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.
• Spine has black text and is bright with crushed ends.
• Binding is secure. 
• Pastedowns and feps of pale blue have some staining, a crease to rear fep, bookseller sticker.  
• Frontispiece, a photographic portrait, is tipped in. 
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is tanned, more toned at margins.  A stain to head of text block extends 1/4" onto pages 100 onward.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a stain to head, a little foxing.  See photos.  
• PS2025.0312

208 pages. 9 x 13.5 inches

Publisher's olive gray cloth with title and illustration in red and black.  A Very Good copy of this First Edition monograph on the work of Mexican engraver and political printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913).  With reproductions of hundreds of Posada's engravings, including political satire, crime scenes, and every-day life in Mexico during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Posada's work was originally depicted in the penny sheets, chapbooks, and other ephemeral and cheap publications sold in the streets of Mexico City.  This is an important collection, the beginning of Posada's rise in reputation from a ubiquitous engraver to an artist inextricably linked to Mexicanness. 

Diego Rivera, who would repurpose Posada's Catrina in one of his murals almost two decades later, wrote the laudatory Introduction.  Spanish and English texts, arranged in side by side columns.  With an Index to the illustrations.  

First Edition.

Please see photos. More photos available upon request.

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