MONOGRAFIA LAS OBRAS DE JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA GRABADOR MEXICANO

Mexican Folkways, 1930. Lrg. 4to. 208pp. Mexican Folkways, Mexico, 1930. Editors Francis Toor, Paul O'HIggins, Blas Vanegas Arroyo. An important early work on the great Mexican engraver and popular artist Jose Guadalupe Posada, with an introduction by Diego Rivera. Reproduces hundreds of Posada's engravings, including calaveras, political satire, crime scenes, and every-day life in Mexico during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as originally depicted in the penny sheets, chapbooks and other ephemeral and cheap publications sold in the streets of Mexico City. "Of the fifteen thousand cuts that Posada is said to have made for the leading publishing house of popular literature Vanegas Arroyo, all that were not worn out, or stolen during the years of revolution, are, so far as is known, published here..This is the first permanent record of the work of José Guadalupe Posada" - Frances Toor. Folio. Original color pictorial cloth in green with black and red letters and image. Some minor light fraying to spine ends.. [8],208,[6] p. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Posada and his son, loose. Text in Spanish and English. Signed by Doris Lee.