Liluli: Avec Trente Deux Bois Dessinés et Graves par Frans Masereel
Genève: Éditions du Sablier, 1919. Frans Masereel. French language edition. 145pp. Sextodecimo [17 cm] Plain wraps with a printed French-fold wrapper. Wrapper toned at the spine. Trivial soiling to wraps. In the publisher's glassine wrapper, in near pristine condition, with minor edge wear. French text. Ritter C a) Nr. 8.I. Very Good + / Very good +. Item #64439
With 32 reroduced woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel.
No. 311 of 750 "exemplaires sur vélin volumineux anglais numérotés en chiffres arabes de 1 a 750." The overall edition consists of 800 copies.
Romain Rolland saw art as a part of the struggle to bring enlightenment to people. In his work he attacked all forms of nazism and fascism, and aimed for social and political justice. 32 woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Masereel's woodcut series, which were mainly of sociocritical content and of expressionistic formal concept, brought Masereel international acknowledgment. Among them were his so-called image novels including 'Passion eines Menschen', 'Mein Stundenbuch', 'Die Sonne', 'Die Idee' and 'Geschichte ohne Worte', which all date from the 1920s. During this same time Masereel also drew illustrations for famous works of world literature by Thomas Mann, Emile Zola and Stefan Zweig.
Price: $250.00