Henry van de Velde. Vier Essays.

Sm. 8vo.

Binding designed by Henry van de Velde : publ. quarter vellum, gilt stamps on covers and on flat titled spine, gilt top, modern slipcase. Very good partly uncut copy. 

First collected edition, printed on laid paper. Reunion of 4 studies published on the occasion of van de Velde's 50th birthday, by the influential art and architectural German critic K. Scheffler (1869-1951), a friend of van de Velde. Modern bookplate. Ref. Henry van de Velde in de collecties van de KBR, 1993, 90.