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MIKROBIBLION -- Kurt FREYER (1885-1973) and Robert W. Petri (editors). Mikrobiblion. Das Buch von den kleinen Büchern. Berlin: Horodisch & Marx, 1929.
24o in 8s. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of six copies. Original orange-brown morocco gilt, by Heyne-Ballmuller. Brown-morocco slipcase.
FIRST EDITION of Freyer's essay on miniature book collecting and Petri's catalogue of Vera V. Rosenberg's important collection of antiquarian miniature books. The publisher Abraham Horodisch (1898-1987) was the driving force behind this study of miniature books, in which he had a lifelong interest. He fled the Nazis to settle in Amsterdam where he founded Erasmus Antiquariaat and survived the war. He recognized at an early date Picasso's importance as a book illustrator, and donated his own collection of German Expressionists to the Tel Aviv Museum. This is the exemplaire de tête of Mikrobiblion, number A of 6 COPIES ON VELLUM numbered A-F; 420 copies were printed on paper, 20 on chine. Bondy 207.
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FIRST EDITION of Freyer's essay on miniature book collecting and Petri's catalogue of Vera V. Rosenberg's important collection of antiquarian miniature books. The publisher Abraham Horodisch (1898-1987) was the driving force behind this study of miniature books, in which he had a lifelong interest. He fled the Nazis to settle in Amsterdam where he founded Erasmus Antiquariaat and survived the war. He recognized at an early date Picasso's importance as a book illustrator, and donated his own collection of German Expressionists to the Tel Aviv Museum. This is the exemplaire de tête of Mikrobiblion, number A of 6 COPIES ON VELLUM numbered A-F; 420 copies were printed on paper, 20 on chine. Bondy 207.