Ludmila Jiřincová (1912-1994)

HISTORIE KRÁSNÉ PANTHEIE

1974
Format 8°, 20.5x15 cm, 27 numbered pages, in Czech. Soft binding, sewn block. Title page printed in black and red. Frontispiece and two further etchings by Ludmila Jiřincová. The individual etchings are signed in pencil "L. Jiřincová". Translated from the Greek original by Václav Bahník. Published by Supraphon n. p. in 1974 as the third volume of the bibliophile series Polyhymnia and as the tenth publication in the Lyry Pragensis series. Issued in six hundred numbered copies on handmade watermarked paper from Velké Losiny, divided into several separately numbered series. This copy bears number 23/200. Below the colophon marked with the blind-stamp "Lyra Pragensis". Page 19 torn 1 cm, wrapper shows signs of wear, torn spine. Provenance: Galerie Moderna