Robert Lewis Stevenson (1850-1894)

František Tichý (1896-1961)

DÍTĚ TAK SAMO

1956
Format 4°, 23.2x14.4 cm. 34 numbered pp., in Czech, selected and rendered into Czech verse by Vladimír Thiele from the English edition A Child`s Garden of Verses. Loose, uncut sheets of Holland Pannekoek handmade paper in the original wrapper. Title page printed in black and red. The bibliophile edition contains 3 drypoints by František Tichý: on the cover, in the frontispiece, and above the colophon, one of which is signed and dated (frontispiece). Published in Prague in 1956 as a commemorative print for the sixtieth birthday of F. Tichý, edition size not stated. According to the catalogue by Frant. Dvořák: František Tichý - Grafické dílo, nos. 272-274, pp. 167-168, the edition numbered only 50 copies. The last two sheets have a few small stains; slightly creased edges of the wrapper. Provenance: Galerie Moderna.