Live auction - Lot 1293
[Engraving]
La gravure sur bois moderne de l'Occident. Ouvrage illustré de 239 gravures dont 177 bois originaux (230 en noir et 9 en couleurs).
Paris, Dorbon aîné, 1928
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to.
Three-quarter brown calf, light brown cloth on boards, spine orn. with a central blind fleuron with raised bands, wr. pres.
First edition of this interesting work on European woodcuts. Richly ill. with woodcuts or linos by Jozef and Jan Frans Cantré, van Gindertael, Kirchner, Masereel, J. Minne, van Straten, etc. Ed. of 1000 copies on "papier pur chiffon de Vincent Montgolfier" (n. 980).