17 DE FEBRERO.

Two folded leaves in double wrap around covers, with the original glassene outer cover.

Manuel Altolaguirre, poet and, alongo with Lorca, Cernuda, Alberti, etc., member of the Generación del 27 was the great Spanish typographer of the 20th century. His neat, spare composition, along with his use of large Bodoni type sets him apart from all other printers of his time. He edited and printed the legendary magazine Litoral in Málaga from 1926 to 1930 with early publications by Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre and most of the other poets of the Generación del 27. In 1930 he moved to Paris where he set up another press and published the magazine Poesía, and some 15 supplements by Spanish, French and Hispanoammerican poets. The print run of this plaquette, though unstated, was probably limited to 200 (or fewer copies.) Some disclouring on the title page caused by the paper used for the covers, but generally an unusually good copy. Rare.