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GENERAL AND CONTINENTAL BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Lot 105•
SPAIN - POLITICAL SATIRE La Flaca [-La Madeja], 256 issues (complete) bound in 3 vol., Barcelona, March 1869 - 3 March 1876, sold as a periodical (3)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,402.50 inc. premium
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SPAIN - POLITICAL SATIRE
La Flaca [-La Madeja], 256 issues (complete) bound in 3 vol., mixed edition of the first 100 issues, 3 general pictorial volume titles, each issue usually 4pp., each with a full-page colour-printed lithographed caricature illustration (double-page after the number 100), the decorative pictorial heading to some issues also colour-printed, modern cloth, folio (430 x 300mm.), Barcelona, March 1869 - 3 March 1876, sold as a periodical (3)
Footnotes
Scarce complete set of a journal satirising the government, church and other establishment bodies of Spain, commenting on important national and international political issues of the day, press freedom, Colonialism, and the foibles of man. Each issue includes a striking large format colour-printed caricature, many by the magazine's chief illustrator Tomás Padró. Due to press censorship the title of the journal occasionally changed its title (La Carcajada, La Madeja, El Lio), reviving after periods of closure.