South American Almanac year 1893. Argentinian publication, by El Siglo ilustrado, dedicated mainly to poetry, poetry, literature publications The illustrations and images are mostly of Apeles Mestres as well as the cover and back cover. Then there are other ilustratorss Cabrinety Dieguez Pasco Pellicier Planas Ross Paciano Vehil more than 60 illustrations. 272 pages Measures 8 x 5.5 inches. and is ideal for framing Look we have done a photomontage so you can figure out how a larger print can be done, The cover images are on fine cardboard with beautiful quality chromolithography and I think they can be easily detached from the gummed paper that was used to assemble the spine (original of the time), being able to make a beautiful "marine" print ABOUTH THE ARTIST Apeles Mestresa (Barcelona, ​​October 29, 1854-Barcelona, ​​July 19, 1936) was a Spanish writer and draftsman, a notable figure in Catalan literature and a precursor to the comic strip. Mestres, a versatile artist who cultivated poetry, music and theater, collaborated with vignettes in the periodical press of the time as well as being a prolific book illustrator. Biography Born on October 29, 1854 in Barcelona, ​​he declared in an interview to have started drawing in 1875, in La Campana de Gracia, a magazine in which Tomás Padró's witness took and in which he would draw the longest head of the publication, first appeared in 1881. Progressive and linked to republicanism in certain stages of his life, he opposed the most conservative sectors of the Catalan literary scene, of which Mestres is considered a notable figure.During the First World War he was an allied philosopher, positioning himself against of the Central Powers. Mestres, who spent his last years blind, dedicated to music and poetry, died at dawn from July 18 to 19, 1936 in his hometown - after the outbreak of the civil war - and is buried in the cemetery from Montjuic. Mestres, whom Víctor Balaguer would have defined as "the most Greek of Spanish poets", as a writer he cultivated various genres: poetry, theater or prose, which he often merged into his work, which he illustrated with his own drawings, with which he received Critical and public recognition. Mestres was an illustrator of books, including the edition of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1879) by Antonio de Bofarull, in which his drawings were engraved by Francisco Fusté, or The Daughter of the King of Egypt (1881), by Georg Ebers , which he illustrated with Arturo Mélida. He also contributed illustrations for editions of Rinconete and Cortadillo and El Lazarillo de Tormes, as well as for poetic works of the Duke of Rivas in collaboration with Pellicer, the National Episodes of Galdós, novels by José María Pereda, The last days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, works of Father Coloma, Farina's Novels, The Lady of the Camellias, Modern songs of Perés, Epigrammatic Museum, Death and the Devil of Pompey Gener, Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Castilian Language, the Eneida, the South American Almanac or Ayres del Montseny by Jacinto Verdaguer, among others. Section header in La Campana de Gracia (1903) In the periodic press he participated in La Esquella de la Torratxa, La Academia or La Hispano-Americana Illustration, among many other magazines. As a cartoonist, he rubbed shoulders with Ramón Cilla, Eduardo Sáenz Hermúa (Mecáchis), Eduardo Sojo (Democritus) or others. His conception of the book was like a global art form. Margaridó, a poetic composition set in the Spanish War of Independence, was awarded in the Floral Games of 1888 and published as a book in 1890. His narrative poem Liliana (1907) is linked to modernism. He worked as a librettist for compositions of musicians such as Enrique Granados, Enric Morera, Josep Rodoreda, or Amadeo Vives, among others. He also cultivated the musical composition, often with his own lyrics that would be popularized by Emili Vendrell and Conchita Badía.