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Ver Sacrum Kalender 1903.

Accession number: 
PML 195947
Published: 
Wien : Vereinigung Bildener Künstler Österreichs, 1903.
Description: 
14 leaves : ill. (col.) ; 25 x 26 cm
Notes: 

A calendar for 1903, published as a special issue (Sonderheft) of Ver Sacrum magazine.
Illustrations: 12 full-page woodcuts for each month and 1 woodcut vignette of Jupiter on the half-title, printed in color from stereotypes made from the original wood blocks, by Emil Orlik, Wilhelm List, Kolomon Moser, Max Kurzweil, Alfred Roller, and other Vienna Secession artists. The Jupiter vignette, by Friedrich König, is also printed in black on the front wrapper.
The calendars and decorative borders were designed by Alfred Roller.
Edited by Max Kurzweil.
"Sonderheft, Ver Sacrum Kalender, 1903, preis 2 K"--Printed on front wrapper.
"Druck von Adolf Holzhausen...in Wien ; Zink-Clichés von der 'Graphischen Union' in Wien"--Printed on back wrapper.
"Notiz für den Buchbinder..."--Back wrapper.
Printed in an edition of 500 copies, of which 300 were intended for subscribers, 200 for sale.

Binding: 
Cream printed wrappers with König's woodcut vignette of Jupiter printed on front.
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Department: 
Printed Books