278 - PICASSO (Pablo) & DELGADO, alias PEPE ILLO (José). Facsimile edition of *La Tauromaquia o Arte de torear*. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1980.

PICASSO (Pablo) & DELGADO, alias PEPE ILLO (José). Facsimile edition of *La Tauromaquia o Arte de torear*. Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1980. Large oblong folio in loose-leaf format, with an illustrated cover based on a design by Picasso that reproduces the original cover of the La Cometa editions, housed in the publisher’s black cloth slipcase. Slipcase slightly sun-faded. Complete with all 26 plates reproducing Picasso’s original aquatints. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies (No. 158). Commissioned from Picasso as early as 1927 for Gustavo Gili’s Éditions de la Cometa, the project was interrupted by the Civil War. Revived in 1956 by Gustavo Gili Jr., it was finally completed by Picasso, who, in the spring of 1957, shortly after attending an Easter bullfight in Arles, produced in Cannes the twenty-six aquatints that illustrate this famous *Tauromaquia* and accompany Pepe-Hillo’s treatise, the first major manual on bullfighting published in 1796.