Monografia: Las Obras de José Guadalupe Posada Grabador Mexicano

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. 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.

Published by Mexican Folkways, 1930.

Includes an inscription and signature by one of the editors: 

For Mrs. Liebole

The works of a great popular artist

Frances Toor