Plenas. 12 Grabados de Lorenzo Homar y Rafael Tufino. Introduccion por Tomas Blanco. Diseno de Irene Delano
Homar, Lorenzo & Rafael Tufino
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Edittioral Caribe, Puerto Rico. 1955
Lorenzo Homar and Rafael Tufino illustrating Puerto Rican folk songs.
From the edition limited to 850 copies numbered in ink and with each of the 12 double page illustrations signed by the artist in pencil.
Also included, inserted loose, is the copyright notice, a small leaf of white wove paper (126 x 112 mm) with printed text in English and Spanish for the 'plenas 'Cortaron a Elena' and 'Temporal'.
'DEDICADO a Manuel Jiménez (Canario), quien tanto hizo por dar a conocer la plena puertorriqueña y a todos los otros compositores y músicos que han cultivado este género - entre ellos Rafael Hernández, 'Bum Bum', 'Jarea'., Augusto Cohén, Julio Alvarado, 'Malango', 'Tripope' y muchas otros.' (From the printed text to the interior of the front flap).
From the edition limited to 850 copies numbered in ink and with each of the 12 double page illustrations signed by the artist in pencil.
Also included, inserted loose, is the copyright notice, a small leaf of white wove paper (126 x 112 mm) with printed text in English and Spanish for the 'plenas 'Cortaron a Elena' and 'Temporal'.
'DEDICADO a Manuel Jiménez (Canario), quien tanto hizo por dar a conocer la plena puertorriqueña y a todos los otros compositores y músicos que han cultivado este género - entre ellos Rafael Hernández, 'Bum Bum', 'Jarea'., Augusto Cohén, Julio Alvarado, 'Malango', 'Tripope' y muchas otros.' (From the printed text to the interior of the front flap).
[15 bifolia: 30 unnumbered leaves]. Small folio. (344 x 258 mm). Leaf with title in sanguine, justification and achevé d'imprimer verso, three leaves with introduction by Tomás Blanco dated 'Mayo de 1954' with initial and vignettes in sanguine and and 12 bifolia each with vignette in sanguine to first recto and monochrome linoleum cut spread with musical notation and accompanyng words in sanguine (6 by Homar and 6 by Tufino), each spread signed in pencil by the relevant artist, final bifolium of different paper with song titles and lyrics. Loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers with flaps, covers with title and vignettes taken from the woodcuts by Homar and Tufino against green, purple, blue or orange printed backgrounds, title to spine in white, printed text and titles to flaps.
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