Hermann Paul - Treize Fables - 1928

Hermann Paul. Treize Fables.

Liége, les éditions du Balancier (printed in Bruxelles by J.-E. Goossens, 1928). Folio-oblong (260 x 335 mm) [IV] p. + 13 plates.

With 13 large woodcut plates by Hermann Paul, each wrapped in a china paper wrapper, with a cynical printed text on the upper side.

Loose as issued in back fold paper wrapper with printed title and printer's mark on the upper cover.



Issued in 63 copies only

On papier vergé de Montval, our copy is unnumbered.

Hermann Paul (1864-1940) was a French caricaturist and illustrator. He worked in many techniques, but after World-War I mainly in woodcut. His inspirations became in this period more literary than journalistic. His style evolved from a belle époque line to a modernist simplification, of which the Treize Fables is a very good example.

-Literature: Carteret V, p. 104; Monod 5958.

-Condition: China paper wrapper of no. 11 lacks; the other china paper wrappers slightly damaged along the edges; Binding slightly soiled and some small stains; some offsetting of the cardboard in the binding on the first and last leaf; plates some unobtrusive small stains but in general the woodcuts are in very fine condition.