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CHRISTOPHE, Franz (1875-1946). Venus und Tannhäuser. Improvisationen zu einem erotischen Thema Aubrey Beardsley’s. [Charlottenburg: Hoennicke, 1916.]
35 engravings (c.55-125 x 55-95 mm to the plate mark), including the title and colophon, printed in blue on white papier velin (c.205 x c.140 mm), and tipped at the hinge in ivory paper window mounts (278 x 209 mm); the colophon with the printed limitation ‘9’ corrected in pencil to read ‘19’. All together in a contemporary burgundy clamshell box, the upper side with a Christophe print window mounted under acetate (acetate perished, one of the mounts slightly stained).
VERY RARE EXPLICIT INTERPRETATIONS OF BEARDSLEY. Number 10 of 19 copies only. Beardsley produced only four ‘chaste’ drawings for the expurgated version of Venus and Tannhäuser (1896), and never had the chance to illustrate the uncensored version, which Smithers only published clandestinely after Beardsley’s death. Christophe’s compositions are among the finest, and earliest responses to Beardsley’s text. RARE: WorldCat locates no copy in any public collection; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction: the Leonhardt copy, with 9 plates less than the present copy and in a later binding. The present copy appears to comprise the largest number of plates of any known copy.
35 engravings (c.55-125 x 55-95 mm to the plate mark), including the title and colophon, printed in blue on white papier velin (c.205 x c.140 mm), and tipped at the hinge in ivory paper window mounts (278 x 209 mm); the colophon with the printed limitation ‘9’ corrected in pencil to read ‘19’. All together in a contemporary burgundy clamshell box, the upper side with a Christophe print window mounted under acetate (acetate perished, one of the mounts slightly stained).
VERY RARE EXPLICIT INTERPRETATIONS OF BEARDSLEY. Number 10 of 19 copies only. Beardsley produced only four ‘chaste’ drawings for the expurgated version of Venus and Tannhäuser (1896), and never had the chance to illustrate the uncensored version, which Smithers only published clandestinely after Beardsley’s death. Christophe’s compositions are among the finest, and earliest responses to Beardsley’s text. RARE: WorldCat locates no copy in any public collection; AE and ABPC record only one copy at auction: the Leonhardt copy, with 9 plates less than the present copy and in a later binding. The present copy appears to comprise the largest number of plates of any known copy.
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Eugenio Donadoni