Petr Bezruč (1867-1958)

Vojtěch Preissig (1873-1944)

SLEZSKÉ PÍSNĚ

1909
Book format 8°, 19,7x12,3 cm. 93 numbered pages, in Czech. Title page and initials printed in black and blue-gray. Graphic design and illustrations by V. Preissig: 1 color and 2 black-and-white woodcuts, title page, initials, vignette, typography. Original soft full-leather publisher’s binding (suede) with embossed title, gilt top edge, silk inlay on the pastedown. Bound by B. Fischer (not stated). Published by Spolek českých bibliofilů in Prague in 1909 as its 2nd book, printed on special handmade Van Gelder Zonen paper with a commemorative watermark "Bezruč" (on the title page), in an edition of 500 copies, copy no. 57. Loss and restoration of the silk inlay, book binding slightly split. Provenance: Galerie Maldoror. Lit.: Arno Sáňka, České bibliofilské tisky, Brno 1923, p. 18, no. 7.