Gerhard Marcks. Tierfabeln des Aesop (Aesop's Fables)

Gerhard Marcks

Tierfabeln des Aesop (Aesop's Fables)

(1950, prints executed 1949-50)

Illustrated book with thirty-five woodcuts (including woodcut cover, title page and ornamental initials)

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Author Aesop
Publisher Grillen-Presse, Hamburg
Medium Illustrated book with thirty-five woodcuts (including woodcut cover, title page and ornamental initials)
Dimensions page (each): 13 x 9 1/16" (33 x 23 cm); overall: 13 1/16 x 9 5/16 x 1/2" (33.1 x 23.6 x 1.2 cm)
Printer Richard von Sichowsky , Hamburg
Translator August Hausrath
Edition 1st edition: 175 (including 50 on white "Hahnemühle-Bütten," bound in half-parchment; 100 on cream "Hahnemühle-Bütten," unbound in "Bütten" cover [this ex.]; and 25 hors-commerce); 2nd edition, 1980: 700
Credit Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Object number 305.1950.1-20
Department Drawings and Prints

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