Lot no. 4065
* The full tax is charged on this item marked * in the auction catalogue, i.e. VAT is charged on the sum of the bid price plus the surcharge for those items. The VAT will be refunded to Purchasers providing a validly stamped export declaration.'Slevogt, Max -
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
Goethe's Faust. Second part. With 510 lithographs and 11 etchings by Slevogt.
Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1927. gr. folio (49.2 × 35.7 cm). [2] vols, 460 p., [2] vols. Loose quires in red private full leather case with gilt-stamped cover and spine titles. In cardboard slipcase.
Rümann 25 A - Söhn, Slevogt 815 - Schauer I, p. 214 and plate 84 - Coll. Dorn 463 - Lang, Impressionismus, p. 90 - One of 250 copies, numbered in the colophon and signed by Slevogt. - The artist's last major illustrated work, according to Lang "a luxurious picture book, each copy of which cost ... 1400 Reichsmark per copy". Of the 11 etchings, 10 are full-page, the eleventh is the title vignette. - Minimally browned, very nice copy.
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