Mexico
1900 to 1920
Letterpress and relief cuts on paper
Provenance: Paul Kahn, San Francisco, CA
This is a group of forty Mexican popular imprints from about 1900 to 1920, including illustrated chapbooks, song sheets, and story booklets of the kind sold cheaply on the street. Several carry the relief cut illustrations and dramatic covers associated with Mexico City publishers such as Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, whose booklets paired sensational text with bold graphic imagery. The group spans collections of tales, ballads, and political and religious subjects, with titles including De Cuentecitos and imprints referencing Francisco I. Madero.
Printed on colored and plain paper in a range of small formats, these booklets were the mass reading matter of everyday Mexico during the late Porfiriato and the Revolution. Their woodcut and type ornament covers place them in the tradition of the Mexican broadside and penny press that shaped the country's popular visual culture. As a set they offer a cross section of the printed ephemera that circulated among ordinary readers at a pivotal moment in Mexican history.
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Mexico
1900 to 1920
Letterpress and relief cuts on paper
Provenance: Paul Kahn, San Francisco, CA
This is a group of forty Mexican popular imprints from about 1900 to 1920, including illustrated chapbooks, song sheets, and story booklets of the kind sold cheaply on the street. Several carry the relief cut illustrations and dramatic covers associated with Mexico City publishers such as Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, whose booklets paired sensational text with bold graphic imagery. The group spans collections of tales, ballads, and political and religious subjects, with titles including De Cuentecitos and imprints referencing Francisco I. Madero.
Printed on colored and plain paper in a range of small formats, these booklets were the mass reading matter of everyday Mexico during the late Porfiriato and the Revolution. Their woodcut and type ornament covers place them in the tradition of the Mexican broadside and penny press that shaped the country's popular visual culture. As a set they offer a cross section of the printed ephemera that circulated among ordinary readers at a pivotal moment in Mexican history.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
