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GERGELY, Alexander. Durga Dämmerung. [Probably Berlin: for the author, c. 1926.]
Folio (400 x 370 mm). 8 woodcut plates and 9 text leaves all coloured by hand and by pochoir, the plates printed on china paper and in paper window mounts. (Minor offsetting from plates onto facing blanks.) Original half vellum over printed boards finished with hand-colour; original cardboard box (the box worn).
FIRST EDITION of this striking work, very finely produced with hand-colouring throughout. 'The composition and colour of the scenes, bold yet rendered with a fine feeling for ornament... can be called masterful' (Bilder-Lexikon). One of 100 copies only, this one number 20. Bilder-Lexikon III, 316.
Folio (400 x 370 mm). 8 woodcut plates and 9 text leaves all coloured by hand and by pochoir, the plates printed on china paper and in paper window mounts. (Minor offsetting from plates onto facing blanks.) Original half vellum over printed boards finished with hand-colour; original cardboard box (the box worn).
FIRST EDITION of this striking work, very finely produced with hand-colouring throughout. 'The composition and colour of the scenes, bold yet rendered with a fine feeling for ornament... can be called masterful' (Bilder-Lexikon). One of 100 copies only, this one number 20. Bilder-Lexikon III, 316.
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