Jens Peter Jacobsen/Alois Kolb - Die Pest in Bergamo - 1922

Pest in Bergamo – Jens Peter Jacobsen / Alois Kolb, Translation by Leo Johannes Feddersen 11 etchings by Alois Kolb (5 full-page) Avalun Verlag - Vienna / Leipzig 1922. Original edition of 400 numbered copies This is no. 214, hand-signed by the artist. Small folio (30.5 × 23.5 cm), half parchment The original engravings were printed under the artist’s supervision on a hand press at the State Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Publishing in Leipzig. The layout and the printing of the text were executed in Walbaum-Antiqua type on handmade paper, under the direction of Professor Georg A. Mather in the laboratories of the State Academy. The binding was handmade in H. Sperling’s atelier in Leipzig. Excellent condition. Alois Kolb (1875-1942) was a great engraver of the Art Deco period. In the 1922 edition of Die Pest in Bergamo, his engravings are not mere illustrations, but original works of graphic art.

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