Alphonse Mucha 1907 Burr McIntosh color art cover entire issue w/artist portrait

Scarce and beautiful original art magazine which is shown very well by the pictures.

Color cover by the great Alphonse Mucha. Complete issue with all framable images, including the full page b&w photographic portrait of Mucha, ads at rear.

Mucha was one of the great poster artists of the turn of the century and a man of great talent and international renown in his lifetime. His posters were avidly collected and his partnership with Sarah Bernhard made both of them famous and wealthy.

Cover is chipped with various small flaws such as closed edge chips and a 1.5" tear at bottom edge, nicks to the "yap" edges, various corner creases, rear cover with a couple small surface gouges, etc. An inherently fragile format and size, meaning most surviving examples of this scarce periodical show similar types of condition wear. 

Original string ties which allowed for the magazine to be dis-assembled for displaying the profusion of artistic framable images within.

A really great magazine of the era, this being one of the most desirable issues of the entire run.

Scarce in any condition, this example with some wear but still tremendously pleasing.

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