[Mexico]. [Politics]

Pira y Honras del Hueso: o Sea Contestacion entre el Monigote, el Sacristan, y el Notario [caption title]

Mexico City: Oficina de Valdes, 1826. [6]pp. Folio. Uncut, with half-sheet inserted, as issued. Previously folded. Light wear and creases at edges. Some toning and dust soiling, heavier at gutter and old horizontal fold. About very good. Item #2516

A stylized, literary commentary on the state of politics and religion in Mexico five years after independence. The work comprises a dramatic dialogue interspersed with poetry between three characters -- a fool, a priest, and a notary -- and with much allegory and allusion laments the trying circumstances of the young country. The work is a direct response to a similar dialogue, El Entierro del Hueso en el Muladar de San Pablo, and is a good example of the literary political debates occurring in print during Mexico's first period of independent stability. Very scarce; we locate only one copy, at the British Library.

Price: $500.00