Biblioteca del Niño Mexicano Collection: Finding Aid priBNM
Mari Khasmanyan
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Title: Biblioteca del niño Mexicano collection
Identifier/Call Number: priBNM
Physical Description:
0.08 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1899-1901
Abstract: A collection of booklets dating from
1899 to 1901 that were printed in Spanish by Mexican writer Heriberto Frías (1870-1925),
illustrated by Mexican lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), and published by
Spanish publisher Maucci Hermanos. The twelve educational booklets were part of a series of
110 total that were published for children to provide retellings of events in Mexican
history.
Language of Material: Materials are in
Spanish.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Stellar Books & Ephemera, August 2023.
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) born in Aguascalientes, Mexico, was a Mexican
lithographer and engraver. In 1870, Posada joined printer José Trinidad Pedroza's studio and
worked with him in Aguascalientes and León until 1888 when Posada relocated to Mexico City.
In Mexico City, Posada worked as an illustrator for Antonio Vanegas Arroyo and other
publishers to produce broadsides, relief prints, engravings, and lithographs. His prints and
engravings were primarily in black-and-white and were published in children's stories,
songbooks, playbooks, advertisements, and other mediums.
Posada is also noted for his satirical criticism of Mexican politics which he portrayed
through images of the calavera (skeleton), and his iconography remains associated with Día
de Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations today.
A collection of twelve staple-bound booklets published from 1899 to 1901 by Maucci Hermanos
in Barcelona, Spain, for distribution in Mexico. The booklets are retellings of Mexican
historic events written by Heriberto Frías. Each booklet includes a color lithographed cover
by José Guadalupe Posada with three black-and-white lithographs in the interior. Images
illustrate scenes from medieval and colonial battles, conquests, and events in indigenous
history.
This collection includes twelve of the 110 total booklets printed in the Biblioteca del
niño Mexicano series. Titles include: La Infamia del Rey Tzintzicha ó la Entrega de
Michoacan; El Sitio de Tenochtitlán ó el último día de un Imperio; Los Crímenes y Las
Epopeyas de México Colonial; El Ilanto de Hernán Cortés ó el Arbol de la Derrota; El
Temaxcall de Netzahualcoyotl en la Noche Ante Hernan; La Conspiración del Marqués del Valle;
El Año Fatal o los Desastres de la Patria; Las Infamias de la Ambición ó la Cruz de la
Aurora; Los Crimenes de la Ambición ó el Anatema de la Víctima; La Piedra Contra el
Emperador ó la Sublimidad de un Héroe; Fray Bartolomé de las Casas ó la Protección de los
Indios; and La Voz del Heroismo y el Desengaño de la Ambición.
Processed by Mari Khasmanyan in December 2023.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Chapbooks, Mexican
Children's literature, Mexican
Lithographs--Color
Mexico -- History
Printing -- Mexico -- History
Frías, Heriberto, 1870-1925.
Maucci Hermanos (México)
Posada, José Guadalupe (Posada Aguilar), 1852-1913
Box Prints and ephemera file 1, Folder 4
Biblioteca del niño Mexicano collection