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575 - VAN DE VELDE, Henry. 2 first editions. 1. The Formulas of Modern Architectural Beauty. This book contains and summarizes essays relating to the “new style” [...]. (Weimar, printed on a hand press [Cranach Presse] during the war years of 1916 and 1917). Square quarto, pages partially uncut (a few pinholes and foxing, mainly in the margins). Unbound, in a plain brown paper cover (lower cover missing, upper cover worn with margin damage, spine partially split). 1/200 (of 250) on Van Gelder laid paper (unnumbered), complete with the black-and-white photograph pasted on p. 82. Compiled by Van de Velde a few months before his departure for Switzerland, this compilation brings together a series of texts published in German since his arrival in Weimar. Ref. Brinks, p. 432, no. 133. - Ploegaerts, The Architectural Work of vdV, pp. 122–123. - 2. Life and Death of the Column. (Brussels), Éditions du Scarabée d’or, (1942). Square in-16, untrimmed (slight marginal wear on 1 p.). Br., with replaced printed cover (a few light pinholes on the covers, very slight wear at the bottom of the spine). 1/250 numbered copies on deluxe parchment (no. 43). Anopistograph printing in two colors: black and ochre; typographic composition by Hélène Denis-Bohy, a student at La Cambre and regular collaborator of Van de Velde. Ref. Van de Kerckhove et al., nos. 94 & 111.
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VAN DE VELDE, Henry. 2 first editions. 1. The Formulas of Modern Architectural Beauty. This book contains and summarizes essays relating to the “new style” [...]. (Weimar, printed on a hand press [Cranach Presse] during the war years of 1916 and 1917). Square quarto, pages partially uncut (a few pinholes and foxing, mainly in the margins). Unbound, in a plain brown paper cover (lower cover missing, upper cover worn with margin damage, spine partially split). 1/200 (of 250) on Van Gelder laid paper (unnumbered), complete with the black-and-white photograph pasted on p. 82. Compiled by Van de Velde a few months before his departure for Switzerland, this compilation brings together a series of texts published in German since his arrival in Weimar. Ref. Brinks, p. 432, no. 133. - Ploegaerts, The Architectural Work of vdV, pp. 122–123. - 2. Life and Death of the Column. (Brussels), Éditions du Scarabée d’or, (1942). Square in-16, untrimmed (slight marginal wear on 1 p.). Br., with replaced printed cover (a few light pinholes on the covers, very slight wear at the bottom of the spine). 1/250 numbered copies on deluxe parchment (no. 43). Anopistograph printing in two colors: black and ochre; typographic composition by Hélène Denis-Bohy, a student at La Cambre and regular collaborator of Van de Velde. Ref. Van de Kerckhove et al., nos. 94 & 111.
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