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Zichy, Michael von. Love. With 40 heliogravures. Leipzig, privately printed, 1911. 4 pp. 31.5 x 40 cm. Original half vellum binding (front hinge slightly torn, vellum somewhat browned in places).
One of 300 copies. - Hayn-Gotendorf IX, 639 - Strongly erotic drawings on the whole range of sexual activities, by the Hungarian court painter to Tsar Alexander II, Michael von Zichy (1827-1906). - "The court painter Zichy appears here as the court painter de Sa Majesté l'Amour. And the work he lays down at the feet of the naked sanctity of woman is not only a high song of love, but also a powerful work of art." (From the preface). - Untrimmed. - Printer's mark and plates with small collector's stamp on verso. Text leaves partly fingerstained, plates sporadically slightly stained. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.
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Zichy, Michael von. Love. With 40 heliogravures. Leipzig, privately printed, 1911. 4 pp. 31.5 x 40 cm. Original half vellum binding (front hinge slightly torn, vellum somewhat browned in places).
One of 300 copies. - Hayn-Gotendorf IX, 639 - Strongly erotic drawings on the whole range of sexual activities, by the Hungarian court painter to Tsar Alexander II, Michael von Zichy (1827-1906). - "The court painter Zichy appears here as the court painter de Sa Majesté l'Amour. And the work he lays down at the feet of the naked sanctity of woman is not only a high song of love, but also a powerful work of art." (From the preface). - Untrimmed. - Printer's mark and plates with small collector's stamp on verso. Text leaves partly fingerstained, plates sporadically slightly stained. - Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt.
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