ARTISTES DU LIVRE
Alastair
(Hans Venning Voight, 1887-1969)
ALASTAIR. Forty-Three Drawings. With a note of exclamation by Robert Ross, London: John Lane, 1914, 4°, number 78 of 500 copies, plates, some partly coloured by hand, some tinted, original off-white pictorial buckram, gilt, t.e.g; Fifty Drawings. With an introduction by Carl van Vechten, New York: A. Knopf, 1925, 4°, limited to 1025 copies, plates, some partly coloured by hand, original patterned cloth. (2)
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ALASTAIR. Forty-Three Drawings. With a note of exclamation by Robert Ross, London: John Lane, 1914, 4°, number 78 of 500 copies, plates, some partly coloured by hand, some tinted, original off-white pictorial buckram, gilt, t.e.g; Fifty Drawings. With an introduction by Carl van Vechten, New York: A. Knopf, 1925, 4°, limited to 1025 copies, plates, some partly coloured by hand, original patterned cloth. (2)
Alastair is described in van Vechten's introduction as having "A tortured, perverse, morbid temperament, informed with a bitter sensitiveness and a divine pity."
Alastair is described in van Vechten's introduction as having "A tortured, perverse, morbid temperament, informed with a bitter sensitiveness and a divine pity."