Complete Run (Most Copies are Retypeset Bound Volumes)
El Valedor: Periódico joco-sério, ladino, chismoso, médico, loco y de todo un poco, lo que se llama Entrón de altiro!
Notes: A rare complete 58-issue run of this semi-comic political weekly published in Mexico City, including the very scarce five issues of volume 2 and the original text and layout, which was changed for the more commonly seen bound collection of just volume one.
The introduction to the first issue states the publication's political stance, which is support of the liberal 1857 Mexican constitution. Each issue opens with the publication's main rule, "Pagarlo antes de leerlo", or "Pay before reading." Then follows an essay stating El Valedor's views on a topic, sometimes as a satirical reframing of an article in another periodical. The remaining pages of each four-page issue are given over to political poems, comic dialogues, and quips on various subjects.
Typical of its era, the language is slangy, filled with nicknames and allusions to politicians, and it assumes a lot of knowledge of mid-1880s Mexican politics and newspapers. Porfirio Díaz, Romero Rubio, and Manuel González are among the politicians mentioned, and the editor (writing under a pseudonym that might translate as Lucas the Leaper) did not think much of them, referring to Díaz as "el Perfirito".
OCLC records 11 copies, most of which seem to be a bound re-issue of the complete first year. Comparing a digital version of the Getty copy with the present copy shows that many issues in the volume one reissue are marked "Segunda edición" in the masthead. The typesetting is different in the second edition copies and in most cases the content varies also. The second edition issues typically have an advertisement inserted at the end of page four, whereas the original issues mostly do not have ads.
In some cases, the content differences are significant. In issue 7, for example, most of page 4 was cut from the second edition and most (but not all) placed in issue 8.
[232] pages; each issue separately paginated.
NB: The attribution of Francisco Güemeas as the editors comes from 20,000 Spanish American Pseudonyms by Scroggins.
Edition + Condition: This volume is made up of the second edition of the premiere issue and the original editions of the rest. Included here are volume 1, number 1 (diciembre 1° de 1884) to volume 2, number 5 (enero 4 de 1886), for a total of 58 issues. Very good in quarter leather and decorated, mottled paper-covered boards bound by Celso Jara. Spine end chipped.
Publication: México [Mexico City]: Tip. de J. A. Laguna, a cargo de M. L. Alveano, 1884–1886.
Item No: #362455
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