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Numbered Luxury Collection of Art-Nouveau Bookplates

Kozma, Lajos

Kozma Lajos exlibrisei. [Lajos Kozma’s Bookplates.]

Budapest: Kiadja a „Ház”, 1909. First edition. Limited, one of fifty copies, numbered by the artist. Bound into cloth. 29 reproductions of bookplates. Housed in its original half cloth folder, with illustrated panels, printed on blue paper. Illustrated endpapers and title page. [32] leaves. Folder is slightly worn at edges. Some spots on cover, edges slightly bent. In very good condition.

Scarce collection of Lajos Kozma’s Art Nouveau bookplate designs.

An early publication of Lajos Kozma (1884–1948; Hungarian graphic artist and architect), a collection of twenty-nine bookplates, created in Art Nouveau style. Most plates were designed for progressive, leftist Hungarian intellects and artists in the manner of the Wiener Werkstätte and Gustav Klimt.

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Price: €2,000.00