Author: PLANAS, D. Eusebio.
Title: Historia de Una Mujer.
Description: Barcelona, Fugarull 1880. Folio contemporary quarter calf; [2]pp and 50 chromolitho plates including an illustrated title. Printed title browned, spots here and there, a rather good copy. ¶ A captivating moral tale in picture and scant words with - as is traditional in the best moral tales - all the attention lavished on the rise and triumph, the excesses and debauchery, of our beautiful heroine. Only a couple of plates show repentance and retribution. The last shows the wasted, destroyed beauty gazing plaintively and helplessly at the somewhat zombie-like nun who must be watching the approach of the angel of abject death. Among the work's many delights is the portrait gallery of what would now be called creepy old perves, those older gentlemen that once could freely cluster around young beauties like vultures round a ripe zebra. Planas was a busy illustrator - trained as a lithographer in Paris, and the quality of these need no apology - whose best work centres around the games of the night and the pleasures of the flesh. Apparently this work was conceived as a series of cigarette cards before appearing in this much more satisfying format.
Keywords: graphic art colour printing feminism women humour c19th Spain
Title: Historia de Una Mujer.
Description: Barcelona, Fugarull 1880. Folio contemporary quarter calf; [2]pp and 50 chromolitho plates including an illustrated title. Printed title browned, spots here and there, a rather good copy. ¶ A captivating moral tale in picture and scant words with - as is traditional in the best moral tales - all the attention lavished on the rise and triumph, the excesses and debauchery, of our beautiful heroine. Only a couple of plates show repentance and retribution. The last shows the wasted, destroyed beauty gazing plaintively and helplessly at the somewhat zombie-like nun who must be watching the approach of the angel of abject death. Among the work's many delights is the portrait gallery of what would now be called creepy old perves, those older gentlemen that once could freely cluster around young beauties like vultures round a ripe zebra. Planas was a busy illustrator - trained as a lithographer in Paris, and the quality of these need no apology - whose best work centres around the games of the night and the pleasures of the flesh. Apparently this work was conceived as a series of cigarette cards before appearing in this much more satisfying format.
Keywords: graphic art colour printing feminism women humour c19th Spain
Price: AUD 1050.00 = appr. US$ 726.46 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 9294
- Book number: 9294