Viva Espana: Veinte Aguas Fuertes de Juan Torito

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First Edition.

16cm x 12cm. 21 hand coloured plates. Papered boards folder, gilt lettering, slipcase.

20 plates plus an illustrated title plate, each signed and numbered (8 of 69) by the pseudonymous, Juan the Bull, c. 1925. The artist’s identity remains unestablished, with trade speculation favouring a French rather than a Spanish hand. Each plate sexually explicit. Rare in any form, unrecorded in OCLC, only one copy traced at auction, the Hans-Jurgen Dopp copy, that set uncoloured; and all other sighted copies likewise comprise twenty plates including title. The present example thus notable both for hand-colouring and the additional plate.

One plate with tanning to the top edge and with a minor crease to the top right corner, affecting the margin only. Near Fine Condition.

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