Posada : Printmaker to the Mexican People

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944. 60pp, followed by 66 b&w plates; blue illustrated endpapers. 4to. Sewn in printed red wraps. Light soiling and wear to covers; slight forward cocking to spine. Very good, with yellow errata slip laid in.

A clean and sturdy copy of this uncommon catalog published in conjunction with a show of work by Mexican political printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) at the Art Institute of Chicago. A text by Fernando Gamboa, followed by a generous selection of black-and-white plates.