Colourful street scenes of Buenos Aires inspired by Borges's novel 'Evaristo Carriego' (1930).

[Evaristo Carriego]. La canción del barrio. (The song of the borough)[Buenos Aires, Francisco A.Colombo, 1933]

Published by [Buenos Aires, Francisco A. Colombo, 1933]., 1933

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[Evaristo Carriego].La canción del barrio. (The song of the borough).[Buenos Aires, Francisco A. Colombo, 1933].Small portfolio in octavo containing a suite of 15 engraved plates in a dry point technique. Illustrated front-wrapper serving as title page. One of 90 copies printed on soft paper. Edited by Viau and Zona. Enrique Fernández Chelo designed and engraved the dry point plates and made the impression from the hand-press of the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación. Evaristo Carriego reflects the colourful street life of the bohemian parts of Buenos Aires in the early 20th century. Evaristo, a minor popular poet and a great conversationalist, had made a great impression on the young Jorge Luis Borges, whose family lived in the same part of Buenos Aires. Borges' life of Carriego (published in 1930) in which he recalls his childhood memories, inspired the present series. Francisco A. Colombo (1868-1953) was a self-taught craftsman of great talent. He began as a modest printer who made his own paper in the rural town of San Antonio de Areco; by the late 1920s he was already the most accomplished printer in South America producing books of considerable quality. Seller Inventory # 5671

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Title: Colourful street scenes of Buenos Aires ...

Publisher: [Buenos Aires, Francisco A. Colombo, 1933].

Publication Date: 1933

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good