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Title: Oscar Wilde: The Sphinx. Illustrated and decorated by Alastair [Hans-Henning von Voigt]. This edition is limited to 1000 copies and cannot be reprinted, as the stones from which the offset plates were printed in Belgium at the time of the German invasion, and were destroyed. With handwritten signature by Alastair.
Description: London, New York, Lane 1920. Eines von 1000 Exemplaren auf Bütten. - Mit 10 farbigen Tafeln in Schwarz und Türkis mit bedruckten Seidenhemdchen, 13 grossen farbigen Initialen sowie zwei zusätzlichen farbigen Tafeln in Türkis und Schwarz zu Beginn und Ende des Buches von Alastair. - Mit eigenhändiger Signatur des Künstlers im Impressum. - OLwd. mit goldgepr. u. türkisfarb. Deckelillustration von Alastair u. goldgepr. Rückentitel. - Binding slightly dusty and minimally rubbed, light trace of bookplate on inside front cover, else a very fine copy / Einband leicht angestaubt und minimal berieben, blasse Exlibris-Spur auf Innendeckel, sonst schönes dekoratives Exemplar. 36 pp. with 10 offset-plates printed in black and turquoise, with descriptive tissue guards, 13 large decorative initials printed in black and turquoise and 2 additional plates printed in black and turquoise at the start and the end of the book. 4°, publishers white buckram binding pictorally stamped in gilt and turquoise with a design by Alastair.

Keywords: Jugendstil, Signierte Exemplare

Price: EUR 750.00 = appr. US$ 815.14 Seller: Kunstantiquariat Joachim Lührs
- Book number: 240208

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