[Posada, Jose Guadalupe]

[Substantial Group of Thirteen Chapbook Covers and Twenty-Five Broadsheets Illustrated by Posada]

[Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, ca. 1880-1910]. Thirty-eight total items, varying sizes, with broadsheets each measuring approximately 12 x 8 inches. Mostly minor edge wear and toning. A small number of items with heaver chipping, short closed tears, or light dampstaining. Overall, very good. Item #4547

An excellent group of twenty-five popular broadsheets and thirteen chapbook covers for works published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, with numerous illustrations by pioneering Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada. The chapbook covers include a number of quite colorful examples for small songbooks and children's fables, and several comprise instances of Posada's earliest work with Arroyo during the 1880s. The larger broadsheet prints present in this collection amply demonstrate the themes with which Posada worked across his career -- national and political news (including the Mexican Revolution), sensational and disastrous events, crimes and banditry, religion and devotion, everyday life, and Mexican culture. They also provide a sizable sample of the work generated by the collaboration of Posada and Arroyo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Included here is the first issue of El Cancionero Popular, a serial broadsheet that Arroyo published for several years around 1910 that printed contemporary popular songs and paired their verse lyrics with Posada woodcuts and vignettes. Of the remaining twenty-four broadsheets, nine are news sheets that relate their stories in prose and generally contain one or two larger woodcut illustrations, while the rest treat their topics in verse. Two broadsheets treat the same subject, the execution of famed Mexican bandit Jesus Negrete, which interestingly demonstrates the way in which the subjects that proved more popular were often revisited. In all, a substantial collection of striking Posada illustrations, with numerous examples suitable for exhibition of teaching. A full list of broadsheet titles is as follows:

1) Inundación de Guanajuato. La Ciudad de Guanajuato Sumida en Honda Afliccion…
2) Unas Lindas Mañanitas a Las Muchachas Bonitas
3) El Fusilamiento de Francisco Martinez, en la Ciudad de Pachuca el 12 de Julio 1906
4) Llano Triste y Lamentable de Una Pobre Huerfanita
5) ¡¡Espantosisimo Crimen!! Dos Niños Extrangulados la Noche del 2 de Diciembre…
6) Fusilamiento de Zapatistas. En el Pueblo de Ozumba E. de Méx
7) Versos Muy Extravagantes Divertidos Fabulosos…
8) La Soldadera en el Cuartel
9) Mineros Libres y Mienros Sujetos
10) Loa Dicha por una Cocinera y un Aguador, en Honor de Nuestra Señora de Rosario
11) El Cancionero Popular. Hoja Num. 1
12) Jesus Negrete (á) el Tigre de Santa Julia. Fusilado en la Cárcel de Belem. El 22 de Diciembre de 1910
13) El Fusilamiento de Jesus Negrete (á) “El Tigre de Santa Julia” el 22 de Diciembre de 1910…
14) Tristísimas Lamentaciones de un Enganchado para el Valle Nacional
15) Emiliano Zapata, Heroido en un Combate
16) Loa en Honor de la Stma. Virgen de la Soledad
17) Maravillosa Aparicion del “Señor de Chalmita,” en San Locas Xochimanca…
18) Loa Dicha por el Dr. Merolico, en Honor de Ntra. Sra. de Guadalupe
19) El Centenario de La Independencia de México en el Año de 1910
20) Reciente Pleito de Casados Que Si No Riñen Estan Enojados
21) ¡¡Horrible y Espantosísimo Acontecimiento!! Un Hijo Infame Que Envenena a Sus Padres y a un Criada en Pachuca…
22) Con las Suegras Poco y Bueno Si No Tendrán en Infierno
23) La Muerte de Su Santidad León XIII y Detalles de Su Penosa Enfermedad
24) Señora, Su Conejito Ya No le Gusta el Zacate, Solo Quiere Chocolate Que Animal Tan Picudito!
25) Las Tristes Reminiencias Que en Mexico Quedan Ya del Mas Antiguo Relox Que Estaba en la Catedral.

Price: $6,500.00