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Slevogt. -Cooper, James Fenimore.

The Leatherstocking Tales. Translated and edited by R. Federn. With original lithographs by Max Slevogt.

Berlin, Paul Cassirer 1909

47 x 36.5 cm. 474 pages. With 312 (including 52 full-page) original lithographs. Red original cloth binding with gilt spine and cover, cover vignette, and wide decorative borders. - One of 190 numbered copies on laid paper. Cooper's magnificent Leatherstocking Tales with 312 original lithographs by Max Slevogt. The scenes come to life through his brilliant powers of empathy and improvisation. Slevogt's Cooper was a great commercial success, and the artist's position as the leading book illustrator of Impressionism remained undisputed from then on. 1st printing by Pan-Press. A fine copy. - Schauer, Volume II, 84-85 with illustrations. - The Artist and the Book 288. - Rodenberg 452.

€1,800

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