Lot 117

Jindřich Čadík (1891 - 1979) OEUVRE OF JOSEF DRAHOŇOVSKÝ

The publication in a collector's edition in a cassette with two original glyptics by Josef Drahoňovský is one of the most difficult to find on the market, in this particular collector's and probably custom variant it is unique. The publication contains 310 pages, including 64 photographic illustrations on one-sided intaglio appendices. The book was published by Vladimir Zikes, a publisher who published his first book before graduating from high school. In addition to his activities as a publisher, bookseller and antiquarian, he exhibited book art, sold prints, and held auctions of bibliophilic and fine art books. He made part of his own premises available for free to the Czech PEN Club and also participated in the Resistance during the war - he published illegal instructions for the home production of explosives.