Lot 186: JUGENDSTIL -- KYSELA, Frantisek (artist; 1881-1941) and ALCOFORADO, Mariana (author). Portugalske Listy . [Letters of a Portuguese Nun.] Prague: by Neubert for Nova Edice [c.1910s]. Small 2° (177 x 128mm). Three chromolithographs after Kysela

JUGENDSTIL -- KYSELA, Frantisek (artist; 1881-1941) and ALCOFORADO, Mariana (author). Portugalske Listy. [Letters of a Portuguese Nun.] Prague: by Neubert for Nova Edice [c.1910s]. Small 2° (177 x 128mm). Three chromolithographs after Kysela mounted on black card with the original patterned tissue guards. (Light yellowing to the text leaves facing the plates.) Publisher's original colour printed paper-covered boards, printed label mounted on the upper side, printed endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance small ownership signature in ink on the half-title.

A HANDSOME JUGENDSTIL PRODUCTION, with striking cover design and 3 chromolithographs after Frantisek Kyzela. RARE: although the imprint states 700 copies were printed, ABPC records no copy sold at auction; WorldCat locates just one, at the National Library of the Czech Republic.