JUNGMAN, Beatrix (illustrator). Nico JUNGMAN (author). Norway. London, A. & C. Black, 1905.
Large 8vo. Original publisher's cloth, top edge gilt; pp. [2], x, 199; illustrated with 75 fine and striking coloure plates by Beatrix Jungman, protected by captioned tissue-guards; spine a little faded, a little offsetting from endpapers and spotting to text; a good copy.
First edition, published in the year of Norwegian independence. Jungman was an outstanding Anglo-Dutch painter, whose work is reminiscent of Schiele's topographical paintings. This volume contains a portrait of Nansen, and all the other intellectuals of the young state. Inman A & C Black Colour Books 62.
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