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(GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM.) Wage, Claus. Dante Block-Buch.

2088143: (GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM.) Wage, Claus. Dante Block-Buch. Rich, dynamic woodcut plates facing text with border decorations on left, all printed on Japan paper; two additional prints signed by Wage laid in. Thick folio, plain vellum boards bound by the artist, rubbed; promotional leaf and list of works by Wage laid in. (Freiburg, 1925)

a powerful work by wage with dramatic, richly-inked plates. Each folded leaf has an inserted blank to prevent reflection and offsetting to the adjacent image. A handwritten colophon by Wage states that it is number three of only ninety-nine copies, it is believed that far fewer were actually printed.

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