Los Proverbios

FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828) Los Proverbios the complete set of 18 etchings with aquatint and drypoint, 1864, on heavy wove paper, three (including the title page) with a J.G.O. watermark, two with a Palmette watermark, fine, richly printed impressions from the First Edition of three hundred copies, published by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1864, with the lithographic title page, the full sheets, with gilt edges, bound in green boards and marbled end-papers, with black morocco spine, the title in gilt on the spine, a soft vertical crease along the left platemark of plates 17 and 18 (visible mainly on the reverse), occasional pale surface dirt in the margins and on the title page, in a blue paper-covered slipcase (some wear and splitting to the slipcase) otherwise in very good condition (album) Sheets 325 x 483 mm.