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George, Stefan

Contemporary Poets.
2 volumes

Berlin, Georg Bondi 1905

20.5 x 15 cm. 223 pages. Original parchment bindings with spine and cover titles, publisher's signet in gold on the front cover and gilt head edges. One of only six copies of the special edition on Japanese paper. Printed in the Stefan George typeface by Otto von Holten. The entire book design (bindings, title pages, and decorative elements) was by Melchior Lechter. With poems by Rossetti, Swinburne, Dowson, Jacobsen, Kloos, Verwey, Verhaeren, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, de Regnier, d'Annunzio, and the Polish Symbolist Rolicz. One of the rarest editions by Stefan George. Impeccable condition. - Raub A 53. - Wilpert/Gühring 2/28. - Landmann 237.

6,500,- €

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