Essen Industriedruck AG 1957
Cream softback covers. With a b/w frontis portrait of Burchartz, and 14 charming tipped-in samples of design - some in colour. Text in German. Inserted is a printed card which is signed in ink by Hermann Schardt. The card explains that the book is a gift to celebrate Max Burchartz's 70th birthday. The covers are slightly soiled and darkened in some areas. There is some wear to the head of the spine, and a taped reference number to the tail of the spine. Unpaginated. 295 x 170 mm (11œ x 6Ÿ inches). Max Burchartz was a well-known professor of typography at the famous art academy. Burchartz is considered one of the most important designers of the modern age; among other things, he created the design of the modern door handle. With 3 short texts by H. Schard, J. Lampe and J. Gebser.
PML Éditions, 1987, in-4°, 190 p., richement ill. en couleur, La grande époque de Mucha, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Grasset et beaucoup d'autres encore. relié, jaquette ill. couleurs.
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2. Essen, Folkwangschule, 1961, in-8°, 24,5 x 21 cm, ca. 250 nn pp with numerous b/w & colored ills. Wrapper slightly dustsoiled, title in large handwriting on spine, still a fine/good copy. With many examples of design of the Fifties.