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George, Stefan

The Carpet of Life and the Songs of Dream and Death with a Prelude

Berlin, Pages for Art 1900

38 x 36 cm. 52 unpaged pages. Original green cloth binding with illustrated front cover title. One of 300 numbered copies printed on heavy gray laid paper. The entire book artwork for this cycle of poems, including the titles, full-page illustrations, frames, and decorative lettering, is by Melchior Lechter. Under his direction, the work was printed by Otto von Holten in Berlin in 1899. An exceptionally fine copy. - Raub A 30. - Landmann 135. - Schauer, Vol. II, 14

2,800

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