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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Steinel, Kurt. Tierfabeln.

With orig. signed pencil drawing and 13 (54 double-page) orig. lithographs by Kurt Steinel. 36 unn. leaves. Small folio. Orig. grey half morocco with tooled spine title. Top edge silvered, marbled boards. In orig. limp card slipcase. – Frankfurt a. M., Ludwig & Mayer, (1962).

Limited private printing published by Ludwig & Mayer type foundery, Frankfurt/Main. Selection of 38 fables in prose and verse by G. E. Lessing. Kurt Steinel (1929–2005) was professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach/Main. Though not declared as thus, the present copy with its orig. drawing, the lithographs signed and the half morocco binding with marbled boards can be considered as a deluxe copy. – Bodemann 485.1 (counts the double-page illus. as two illus.). Not in Fabula docet. – Best.-Nr. 6837