EDZARD (Dietz) - GOGOL (Nikolai Vasilyevich). - Lot 193

EDZARD (Dietz) - GOGOL (Nikolai Vasilyevich). Wij. Munich: Pflüger, 1924. - In-folio, 405 x 285 : (3 ff.), 32 pp., (1 f.), 6 plates, printed cover. Paperback except for the 6 plates in leaves, in publisher's white half parchment portfolio with corners and cardboard flaps. Beautiful edition of the German translation by Karl Nötzel of this fantastic tale by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, illustrated with 6 original engravings out of text by the German painter Dietz EDZARD (1893-1963). Edition at 105 copies on handmade laid paper. This is one of the 100 numbered and marketed copies, including all the engravings numbered and signed by the artist. This copy is enriched with a signed autograph letter from Dietz Edzard to Jadzia Zak dated February 6, 1931 .