Live veiling - Lot 484
Belgium. By Frank Brangwyn. With text by Hugh Strokes and an introduction by M. Paul Lambotte, with fifty-two illustrations.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd, 1916
€ 100 / 200
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Beschrijving lot
4to.
Publisher's vellum, flaps, flat spine with gilt title, red leather clasps, gilt top-edge (soiled, silk closing laces lacking).
Limited to 160 copies (n. 66 printed on Japanese paper, with Branwyn's pencil signature) ill. with 52 woodcuts and headpieces in black, and initials and ornaments in red. With an introduction in French written by Lambotte, the exiled director of the Belgian Ministry of Sciences and Arts. The work was produced to promote the Belgian people, culture and landmarks after the German occupation.