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42 CHODOWIECKI. – Fabeln des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.
Eingeleitet und herausgegeben von Willy Kurth. Printed in blue and black. With 24
orig. etched vignettes on plates. 88 pp. 8vo. Blue half morocco, spine with gilt floral
decoration. Decorative end-papers, top edge gilt, outer and lower edge untrimmed
(designed by Erwin Rechenberg).
Berlin, Eigenbrödler-Verlag, n. d. (1923). CHF 160.– (EUR 107.–)
One of 850 copies. First edition assembling Daniel Chodowiecki’s 24 fable illustrations published
in two series in the «Kleiner Taschen Calender» in 1794 and 1795. – Cf. Engelmann 680
and 711; Bauer 1566–77 and 1665–76. – Good copy.
43 Kleukens, Ch(ristian) H(einrich). Die Fabel vom Wind und
andere Fabeln. Text with cross-hatched background fully cut in wood (printed as
block book). 12 unn. leaves. Small 8vo. Orig. boards with spine title and crowned monogram
«ELP» on front cover, signed «Kleukens-Binderei». Lower margin untrimmed
(spine somewhat darkened).
Darmstadt, Ernst Ludwig Presse, February 1923. CHF 230.– (EUR 150.–)
One of 200 copies, of a total edition of 250 on hand-made paper, of this extraordinary block
book cut and printed by C. H. Kleukens and Oskar Becker. The German printer and typographer
C. H. Kleukens (1880–1954) was, from 1914 to 1937, head of the exclusive Darmstadt private
press of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig von Hessen. The Kleukens bindery was set up in 1919 when
Christian’s brother Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens began his Kleukens Presse. – Rodenberg 82.
Not in Bodemann or Fabula docet. – Good copy.
44 RIPART. – La Fontaine, (Jean de). Fables Complètes Suivies
de Philémon et Baucis. 2 vols. With 12 orig. coloured etchings on plates, each plate
repeated in black and white, and with 13 woodcut vignettes and 13 end-pieces after
drawings, all by Georges Ripart. 234, (6) pp. 8vo. Orig. printed wrappers with front
vignette, in transparent dust-jacket. Untrimmed.
Paris, Maurice Glomeau, 1923. CHF 1’800.– (EUR 1’200.–)
First edition of these illustrations by the French artist Georges Ripart (1871–1933). One of 41
numbered de luxe copies on pur Chiffon des Papeteries du Marais with the double suite of the
plates and with an artist’s original drawing of a reproduced cul-de-lampe, added loose as issued,
of a total edition of 300. Monogrammed by the publisher. Together with a typed presentation letter
(carbon copy) with publisher’s printed letter-head, signed and annotated in writing by the
publisher himself.– Not in Bodemann, F. d., or Monod. – Good copy of this rare limited edition.
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