Small folio, (310 x 216 mm). Eighty etched plates with burnished aquatint many with drypoint and/or burin printed in sepia ink by Francisco Goya (sheet size: 298 x 204 mm) numbered 1 - 80 at upper right and with caption in Spanish beneath on thick laid paper. Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, smooth spine with gilt rules and floral tools in seven compartments, lacking title label, Spanish marbled endpapers, free endpapers removed, all edges stained scarlet.

Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Vincent Van Gogh (1866 - 1911) to front pastedown, cousin of the renowned painter with whom he shared a name, a noted bibliophile and collector with an extensive collection of prints, paintings and drawings; discreet oval blindstamp to first leaf appears to be that of a Spanish bookshop, and bears the text: 'Libreria / Lizcano y Cia. / Jacometrezo 15 / Madrid'; we can trace no detail regarding this bookshop but it seems plausible enough - the stamp is detailed in Van Gogh's sale catalogue - that Van Gogh or his father purchased 'Los Caprichos' there; Sotheby's, London, recently.