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10 loose leaves, each with a large water colour drawing accompanied by a 4 line handwritten poem by Eckertz on thick ocre coloured paper. All watercolours with monogram WE and dated (19)22. In original wrappers, front cover with manuscript title and watercolour drawing with monogram WE and dated (19)22. Folio (380 x 295 mm). Foot of spine torn, a few further short tears. A beautifully illustrated artist's manuscript in bright colours. A christmas gift by the artist for his wife. Waldemar Eckertz (Wuppertal 1878 - Berlin 1947) lived in Düsseldorf around 1906, and in Berlin from 1913 until his death, and had lessons with Lyonel Feininger from 1916. He was a member of the "Novembergruppe" and exhibited in the gallery "Der Sturm". He published poems and linocuts in the magazine of the same name. In the 1920s he participated with his artwork in a number of exhibitions in German galleries and was variously engaged in book and stage design, and was active as an author of poems and plays.

5 unnumb. letterpress leaves (= 1 leaf 'voorbericht' and 4 leaves description of which 3 with large woodcut tail-vignettes) and 4 handcoloured engraved specimen plates. Loosely contained in publisher's printed blue cardboards. Folio (475 x 295 mm). Spine covering defective, covers soiled and with brown waterstaining in margins.
Not in Nissen, Fischbücher and Dean. Cf. Landwehr, Dutch Books with Coloured Plates no. 28 mentioning a copy with a variant imprint: Zalt-Bommel, J. Noman 1804 with the following remark: Not seen, but quoted by J. de Jong: Alphabetische Naamlyst van boeken 1790-1831. The Hague, Amsterdam 1832. Publisher's prospectus for a Dutch edition of this important ichthyological work the printing of which apart of the 4 leaves of text and accompanying plates came to a standstill for unkown reasons. If the copy cited by Landwehr isn't a ghost our copy seems to predate it, but assuming it to be extant an explanation for the two different imprints might be the elusive fact of a joint… Read More

IV, 152 pages, woodcut text-illustrations, one table, 16 plates with 50 numbered illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt stamped title to spine and front cover with gilt stamped hexagonal turning pattern. 4to (260 x 200 mm). Covers lightly soiled. First edition. "The whole of the patterns illustrating this work, were turned by the author, some on box-wood, and others on metal; and every pattern bound up with this copy, has been printed with his own hands, by means of one of Mr. Cowper's parlour printing presses" (foreword page 2). Some leaves with small waterstain in upper blank margin. Four leaves heavily browned.