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Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, (1925). First and limited German text edition, #175/250 numbered copies. Folio. 233 pp. Illustrated with 68 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous black and white in-text illustrations, and with an additional hand-painted decoration on title-page in the style of Bakst. Original quarter faux vellum over purple boards, stamped in gilt, boards unevenly faded, extremities worn; top edge stained purple, other edges untrimmed; book-plate on front paste-down, additional James Blomfield-designed book-plate of Fred G. Ketcheson on colophon.
A handsome and clean copy of Leon Bakst's theater and costume designs.
Sold for $819
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, (1925). First and limited German text edition, #175/250 numbered copies. Folio. 233 pp. Illustrated with 68 mounted color plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous black and white in-text illustrations, and with an additional hand-painted decoration on title-page in the style of Bakst. Original quarter faux vellum over purple boards, stamped in gilt, boards unevenly faded, extremities worn; top edge stained purple, other edges untrimmed; book-plate on front paste-down, additional James Blomfield-designed book-plate of Fred G. Ketcheson on colophon.
A handsome and clean copy of Leon Bakst's theater and costume designs.