[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Oscar Wilde ILLUSTRATED by Frans Masereel with SIGNED Woodcuts

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent Catalog with 61 interesting books, letters, 
photographs, and ephemera: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com/agvent/images/pdfs/Winter2017.pdf

WILDE, Oscar (Frans MASEREEL). THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL. (Munich): 
(Drei Masken Verlag), (1923). First Edition. Quarto (7" x 11") bound in 
full gilt-ruled and lettered vellum with marbled endpapers by Hübel & 
Denck, with the original plain paper dustwrapper and cloth clamshell 
box. Illustrated with 37 woodcuts including 7 striking full-page 
woodcuts by Frans Masereel. Of a total of 320 copies SIGNED by the 
artist on the colophon page, this is copy #59 of only 70 of the "A" 
Edition with each woodcut SIGNED in pencil by Masereel. Slight foxing to 
endpapers, a couple of pages roughly opened. Fine in a close to Fine 
dustwrapper and clamshell box.

According to Masereel scholar and bookseller Abraham Horodisch, "The 
typographical design of the book is exquisite... Of all illustrated 
editions of the Ballad, the Masereel edition seems to me to have the 
highest artistic importance. This is necessarily a subjective appraisal, 
but I must confess that, both in conception and execution, Masereel's 
woodcuts have made the deepest impression on me. Surely there can be few 
who will remain unmoved by their suggestive power." (#018361)        
$3,500.00

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