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[Johannes Thiel, illustrator]. Moliere. L'Avare.

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[Johannes Thiel, illustrator]. Moliere. L'Avare.
<B>[Johannes Thiel, illustrator]. Moliere. </B></I><B><I>L'Avare</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> [Mit 20 Radierungen von Johannes Thiel]. Munich: [Julius Schroder Verlag], 1923. <BR>Limited to 200 copies, of which this is one of twenty-four numbered copies (this copy being "Nummer 17"), with an original copperplate set into the rear panel of the slipcase. Signed in pencil by the artist. Large quarto (12.375 x 9.8125 inches). 88, [1, blank], [1, colophon], [1, blank] pages. Twenty etchings (fourteen full-page) by Johannes Thiel, each initialled in pencil by the artist. Volume XI of <I>Meisterwerke der Weltliterature mit Original-Graphik</B></I>.<BR><BR>Publisher's vellum over reverse bevelled boards. Front cover pictorially stamped in black and lettered in gilt, spine decoratively stamped in black, turn-ins with single gilt fillet and gilt-dotted rule. Top edge gilt, fore-edge trimmed, lower edge uncut. With a double-page engraving as endpapers. Vellum slightly darkened at top portion of rear cover and spine. Short tear to outer blank margin of pages 63/64, not affecting text. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original vellum over board slipcase. The copperplate set into the slipcase is for the full-page illustration on p. 79 and is stamped in the lower right corner "Vervielfaltigung verboten" ("reproduction prohibited").<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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