480 - Aristophanes. Lysistratè. Original engravings by François Kupka. Preface by Lucien Dhuys. Paris, Blaizot, 1911. 2 leaves, XIV pages, 1 leaf, 114 pages, 1, 2 leaves. With frontispiece and 19 original color etchings, 12 wood engravings, and book decoration by František Kupka. 4to. Original dust jacket (back cover with a small scratch, the transparent dust jacket with two tears).

Aristophanes. Lysistratè. Original engravings by François Kupka. Preface by Lucien Dhuys. Paris, Blaizot, 1911. 2 leaves, XIV pages, 1 leaf, 114 pages, 1, 2 leaves. With frontispiece and 19 original color etchings, 12 wood engravings, and book decoration by František Kupka. 4to. Original dust jacket (back cover with a small scratch, the transparent dust jacket with two tears). Carteret IV, 48; Mahé I, 62f; Monod 454.- One of 100 numbered copies of the deluxe edition on Japanese 'imperial' paper with the etchings in 2-4 (42 in total) additional state proofs of the etchings.- Kupka was a Czech painter and printmaker, a pioneer of the early phase of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (= Orphism).- Bound with the two-sheet prospectus for the present work is another color etching.- Front inner hinge cracked and binding broken, a few gathers loose.