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Book Description

[Weimar?]. ca. 1927.. Twenty original signed woodcuts, plus a smaller woodcut on the upper wrapper. Folio (37 x 33.5 cm). Printed on folded Japanese paper, open sewn in paper over limp wrappers. Upper wrapper neatly detached, with chipping to wrapper covering and a small burn mark, internally fine. An impressive sequence of woodcuts of wild and domestic animals and birds (one with an additional color), each signed below the image in pencil by Klemm (1883- 1957). The front blank bears Klemm's 1927 gift inscription to his friend, fellow artist, woodcut master and illustrator, Emil Orlik, who he had met in Vienna. In 1913 Klemm joined the faculty at the Weimarer Kunsthochshule, and in the following decades illustrated a number of significant texts, along with producing individual prints and series. This series bears no explicit limitation, though a pencil shelf-number (?) appears in the corner of the first blank ('692/LXXV').

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