BLOSSFELDT, Karl (1865-1932). Wundergarten der Natur. [The Magic Garden of Nature.] Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932. 2° and 4° booklet of captions (315 x 249mm). 120 black and white prints. (Booklet of captions with negligible soiling on the front leaf, first plate with small faint spot in the bottom margin.) Original grey linen portfolio, front cover blocked in red (light spotting).

BLOSSFELDT, Karl (1865-1932). Wundergarten der Natur. [The Magic Garden of Nature.] Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932. 2° and 4° booklet of captions (315 x 249mm). 120 black and white prints. (Booklet of captions with negligible soiling on the front leaf, first plate with small faint spot in the bottom margin.) Original grey linen portfolio, front cover blocked in red (light spotting).

FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE PORTFOLIO ISSUE. The second of Blossfeldt's three 'immensely popular, regularly reprinted "pictorial documents"... In 1929, a selection of the work was exhibited at the Bauhaus... but even before that Blossfeldt had become an unwitting avatar of the New Objectivity'. (101 Books). Variants of the binding are known; this one is in grey linen with the illustration blocked in red. 101 Books, pp.48-9; The Open Book, pp.106-107.