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MASIUTIN, Vasilii Nikolaevich (1884-1955). Graviu

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Moscow and Berlin: "Gelikon," 1922. 134 pp., 8vo (220 x 150 mm). Illustrated. Original decorated wrappers designed by V. Masiutin. Condition: wrapper reglued, light creasing to edges. rare concise and well-illustrated survey of engraving, etching and lithography in the western culture. The treatise goes from fifteeth-century woodcuts to wood engraving by Félix Vallotton. The only reproduced in the book is Masiutin himself. [With:] SIDOROV, Aleksei Alekseevich (1891-1978). Russkaya grafika za gody revolutsii 1917-1922 [Russian Graphics after the Years of the Revolution from 1917 to 1922]. Moscow: "Dom Pechati," 1923. 115 pp., tall 8vo (245 x 175 mm). Original linocut gray wrappers designed by Aleksei Ilych Kravchenko. Condition: light toning to upper margin of front wrapper, backstrip tanned with small splits and chips to extremities. One of 3000 copies. With graphics by Natan Altman, Iurii Annenkov, Alexandre Benois, Marc Chagall. Sergei Chekhonin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Boris Grigorev, Wassily Kandinsky, Boris Kustodiev, Vasilii Masiutin, Dmitri Mitrokhin, Olga Rozanova and many others. Includes a bibilography of important Russian illustrated books and other graphics. (2)

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