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Westheim, Paul. Das Holzschnittbuch. Mit 144 Abbildungen nach Holzschnitten des vierzehnten bis zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. [One of 100 DELUXE COPIES BOUND IN FULL VELLUM, containing FOUR ORIGINAL SIGNED WOODCUTS BY K. SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, E. HECKEL, H. CAMPENDONK and L. FEININGER]. Potsdam (Berlin), Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1921, 1st ed. (1st-5th thous.), (3 blank),191,(1) pag., 4 original woodcuts signed by the artists: Erich Heckel, Lyonel Feininger, Heinrich Campendonk and Karl Schmidt-Rotluff, printed by hand in the Manus Offizin Fritz Voigt, Berlin, 4 plates coloured by hand and 144 b/w illustrations after woodcuts, decorative endpapers, original full vellum with illustration on frontcover, title in ink on spine, quarto (25,7 x 20,5 cm.).
Dealer Notes
= One of 100 numbered copies of the desirable DELUXE EDITION of this standard work on the history and the technique of woodcut illustration, BOUND IN FULL VELLUM. It contains four exclusive extra handcoloured plates and FOUR ORIGINAL FULL-PAGE WOODCUTS EXCLUSIVELY DESIGNED FOR THIS DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS: E. HECKEL (Zwei am Meer; Dube 326 B), L. FEININGER (Segelboote; Prasse W 183 III); H. CAMPENDONK (Frau mit Blume; Engels 32) and K. SCHMIDT-ROTLUFF (Gespräch vom Tod; Schapire 267).
With the ex-libris of Countess Maia Von der Goltz (1895-1973) on upper pastedown and an institutional stamp on first blank. The four original woodcuts foxed due to the protective flimsies; woodcut of Heckel waterstained in lower corner.
Author Westheim, Paul
Date 1921
Binding original full vellum with illustration on frontcover, title in ink on spine, quarto
Publisher Gustav Kiepenheuer
Illustrator K. SCHMIDT-ROTTLUFF, E. HECKEL, H. CAMPENDONK and L. FEININGER, a.o.
Condition With the ex-libris of Countess Maia Von der Goltz (1895-1973) on upper pastedown and an institutional stamp on first blank. The four original woodcuts foxed due to the protective flimsies; woodcut of Heckel waterstained in lower corner
Pages (3 blank),191,(1) pag.

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