Willy Pogany, Richard Wagner

Signed limited first edition of Tannhauser by Richard Wagner, one of only 525 numbered copies signed by the illustrator, Pogany.

• Richard Wagner (German).
• Illustrated by Willy Pogany (Hungarian).
• London: Harrap, (1911).
• Illustrated by Pogany with 16 tipped-in color plates, full-page black-and-white images, orange in-text illustrations, calligraphic text and decorative initials.
• Printed on heavy grey paper.
• Original full grey calf with elaborate blind-tooled ornamentation, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, in original fleece-lined pictorial box.

A sumptuous production with Art Noveau binding, rarely found in such beautiful condition with the box.