Találkozás Hamupipőkével. Révész Béla uj novellái, Kozma Lajos rajzaival. I–II.
Budapest: Singer és Wolfner (Világosság könyvnyomda), 1909. First (text) volume with a frontispiece and initials by Kozma. Second volume with frontispiece and 30 plates by Kozma. First edition. Pinted in 1550 copies. In 2 volumes. In publisher’s typographically illustrated, hard paper wrappers, designed by Lajos Kozma. Housed in original hard paper folder with label. pp. 153 [7]; ff. [4] [1 (frontispiece)] [1 (title page)] [27 (illustrated plates)] [1 (title “Epilog”)] [3 (illustrated plates)] [1 (colophon)]. Binding slightly worn at the extremities. The first gathering of the second volume loose, and 4 plates with closed tear at the outer margin, no effect to the illustration. Overall in very good condition.
A beautiful Hungarian Art Nouveau publication, Lajos Kozma’s illustrations for Béla Révész’s short stories.
The first text-volume contains fairy-tale-like short stories by Béla Révész, while the second, thirty, fine, full-page Art-Nouveau illustrations by Lajos Kozma. Kozma created these drawings under the influence of the art of Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka and Gustav Klimt. The two volumes appeared with different frontispieces.
Lajos (Ludwig) Kozma (1884–1948) was a Hungarian graphic artist, designer and architect. His furniture designs were published in several magazines and books, among others in Alexander Koch’s Innen Dekoration and in Neue Werkkunst by F. E. Hübsch Verlag (Möbel und Raumkunst von Ludwig Kozma mit einer Einleitung von Ernst Kállai, 1926), his graphic designs in Gutenberg Jahrbuch.
One of the finest examples of Hungarian-Art Nouveau.
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Price: €2,000.00