WW – Czeschka – Keim, Franz: – Die Nibelungen dem deutschen Volke wiedererzählt.

Second edition of one of the most beautiful illustrated books of its time. The illustrations by Carl Otto Czeschka are one of the most outstandig of the Austrian art nouveau. With eight stunning double page and 18 vignette illustrations lithographed in black, blue, red and gilt by Czeschka, a member of the Klimt group and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte. He designed books, painted, and worked in metall, stained glass, jewlery and interior design. A small but splendid masterpiece of Vienna Secession design. – Binding a bit spoted, edges a bit rubbed, inside a fine copy. – Gerlachs Jugendbücherei Vol. XXII. – Heller 22; Klotz 3304/I.