May 12, 2021 - Sale 2567

Sale 2567 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 75
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
BURGERT, HANS-JOACHIM, CALLIGRAPHER. TEXT NACH JESAJA. TEXTAUSWAHL (EDITED BY) Ludus Scribendi. Zweiter Band…Kalligraphien von Hans-Joachim Burgert.
Berlin: Privately printed at Burgert Handpresse, [1976].
Limited edition numbered 95 of 200 copies, signed by Burgert.
Octavo, a selection of Biblical texts written in a calligraphic style reminiscent of concrete poetry, with traditional typeset to facing page, printed on translucent rice paper fanfolded and stitched within and made paper wrappers, woodblock logo of Isaiah the prophet to front cover and first leaf, which is the colophon (mild, uneven fading to front cover, mild wear to edges, a small stain below and to left of logo at front cover, else very good).