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Lot 118
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Dec 5, 2024
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[Grossmann, Rudolf] Hoffmann, E.T.A. Ritter Gluck
(Munich): Marées-Gesellschaft Piper, (1920). First and limited edition, #65/65 numbered copies. Folio. Illustrated with an original pen and ink drawing by Grossmann and 18 hand-colored woodcuts on Japan paper, each woodcut signed by Grossmann, and each blindstamped in bottom right. Each in mat, and loose as issued in quarter cloth over paper-covered board portfolio, printed paper cover label. Portfolio worn, soiled, and dampstained; portfolio flaps worn, lower flap detached but present; mat for original drawing slightly affected by damp, but drawing unaffected.
Limited edition suite of 18 hand-colored woodcuts, with an original ink drawing, by German painter and graphic artist Rudolf Grossmann, for his illustrated edition of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Ritter Gluck. This special edition of only 65 copies was issued alongside the limited edition of 200 copies by the Bremmer Presse, published in the same year.
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