570 - Zichy, Mv Love. Forty Drawings. Leipzig, 1911. 4 sheets, 40 sepia photogravures after ink drawings. Oblong folio. Original half-parchment binding with gilt lettering (edges slightly rubbed, one corner of the front cover broken).

Zichy, Mv Love. Forty Drawings. Leipzig, 1911. 4 sheets, 40 sepia photogravures after ink drawings. Oblong folio. Original half-parchment binding with gilt lettering (edges slightly rubbed, one corner of the front cover broken). Stern-Szana 250; Hayn/Gotendorf IX, 639. - Rare private printing for subscribers, published five years after the artist's death. - Michael von Zichy (1827 - 1906) was a drawing teacher and court painter to the Russian Tsars, 'is the creator of the most famous erotic series of pictures of recent times' (Stern-Szana). 'How deeply he penetrated the exquisite mystery of the union of man and woman is shown by his cycle 'Love,' this magnificent work of mature artistry' (Englisch 297). - Wide white outer margin with occasional light finger marks.