Ferdiš Duša (1888-1958)

DOLŮ VÁHOM, VOL. I

1934/1934
80x48 cm, 10 numbered pp., in Slovak. Loosely inserted sheets, title page printed in black and blue. Contains 15 colour and black-and-white woodcuts on separate sheets 35x30 cm with captions printed in brown. Contains texts by various authors: a treatise by W. Ritter, a note On the Painter F. Duša by J. Pospíšil, a poem by J. M. Hurban, a biographical note on F. Duša. Main commentary by R. Kratochvíl. All text set in two columns in black, separated in the centre by a folklorising ornamental woodcut decoration printed in brown. Woodcut illustration by F. Duša in the text printed in brown. Pages 1–2 are printed on a shared bifolium, the remaining pages are on separate sheets, inserted into the bifolium. Housed in a heavier-weight paper wrapper with a two-colour woodcut. Published and printed by the Linografia K. Jaroň a spol. printing house in Bratislava. Frayed edges of the outer wrapper.