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Very good copy of this splendid Edwardian book of theatre portraits
With all 48 tipped-in colour-printed photographs of stars of the Belle Epoque
All the portraits very dramatically manipulated with colour in an almost Klimt-like style, several beauties depicted like Russian Ikons
The stars include French global star Sarah Bernhardt in Izeyl, American beauty Miss Maud Jeffries and English actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm in Herod: A Tragedy, Charles Hawtrey in A Message from Mars, American actor William Hooker Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, Coquelin Aine as Napoleon Bonaparte and Mme. Jane Hading as Josephine in Plus Que Reine, comedian Huntley Wright as Li in the Chinese musical comedy San Toy, or the Emperor's Own, American society beauty turned stage actress Mrs Brown Potter, and many other opera singers, dramatic actors, comedians, music hall and vaudeville performers of the era. Many would go on to have long careers on stage and even in motion pictures in the next decades.
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Lovely suite of the ultra-rare Dance of Death etchings by the genius printmaker and painter Daniel ChodowieckiVery good copy of this meticulous early 20th-century German reprintNumber 856 of a limited edition of 1,000Complete with title-page with engraved vignette, 12 copperplates and 74 pages of text. Decorative front cover in gold and black designed by Ernst NicolasDaniel Chodowiecki's legendary Dance of Death sequence was never published in book form. Instead, the twelve figures only appeared in the Ravenberg Calendar, 1792.There are some unusual subjects along with the usual clerics and royalty. A fish wife killed by Death with a scythe, a prostitute whipped by a skeleton with a cat'o-nine-tails, a baby stolen by a winged skeleton while the mother sleeps, a swordsman losing a duel to a skeleton with a bone, a soldier on guard duty surprised by Death, etc.For this edition, Chodowiecki's engravings were reprinted on a hand press at Meisenbarth Riffarth engraving company in Berlin.Daniel Niklaus… Read More