Egy tusos üveg meséi. [Tales of a Ink Bottle.]
(Budapest: Világosság nyomda. 1909. With fourty, mostly full page illustrations.
Front cover illustrated. First edition. In publisher’s orange wrappers, bound with two green silk ribbon. 44 leaves. Light spotting at edges of wrappers. A brown stain on spine. Spotting on few leaves with no effect
on the images. Overall in fine condition.
First edition of Tichy’s collection of erotic, Art Nouveau drawings.
Gyula Tichy (1879-1920) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist, strongly influenced by the works of Aubry
Beardsley. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and then at a private art school in Munich. “Egy tusos
üveg meséi” is his most famous collection of graphical works.
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Price: €2,000.00