Bohuslav Reynek (1892-1971)

PIETÀ WITH A DEDICATION TO JAN ZAHRADNÍČEK

1940
Format 8°, 19 x 12.8 cm. 56 numbered pages, in Czech. Frontispiece: signed etching by B. Reynek. Title page printed in black and red. Loose gatherings in the original wrapper. Published by Zdeněk Řezníček in Kroměříž in February 1940 as vol. 2 of the MAGNIFICAT poetry series in an edition of 200 copies, of which 50 numbered copies on Pannekoek paper and 150 on offset paper; this copy is not numbered. Front free endpaper with the manuscript dedication "To my friend Zahradníček, with faithful remembrance, Bohuslav Reynek. At Petrkov, 16 April 1940." Restored wrapper, text block in very good condition.