Edit. Dover Publications, Inc., 1967 New York. With a new Introduction by Philip Hofer. 4ºm (21x24cm) sin paginar. Rústica ilustrada. Cubierta deslucida con puntas rozadas. Amarilleo. Signos de uso. «The strikingly original characterizations and sharply drawn scenes which came to be known post-humously as Los Desastres de la Guerra are among Francisco Goya’s most powerful works and one of the masterpieces of Western civilization. Goya’s model for his visual indictment of war and its horrors was the Spanish insurrection of 1808 and the resulting Peninsular War with Napoleonic France. The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself, or were revealed to him from the accounts of friends and contemporaries. From 1810 to 1820, he worked to inmortalize them in a series of etchings. The Dover edition reproduces in its original size the second state of this first edition, which contained 80 prints. Three additional prints not in the 1863 edition are also included here, making this the most complete collection possible of the etchings Goya intended for this series. The bitter, biting captions are reprinted, along with new English traslations, as are the original title page and preface.»