Fritz Eichenberg, a Halloween tribute!
Dame Folly Speaks The Follies Of Old Age The Follies Of Princely Power The Follies Of Teaching The Follies Of The Court The Follies Of The Monks The Follies Of The Popes The Follies Of War The Follies Of Worshiping Idols The Human Comedy The Dream Of Reason This portfolio of ten wood engravings by Fritz Eichenberg, based on Desiderius Erasmus' famous Humanist tract, was published by the Aquarius Press of New York and Baltimore in 1972 in two editions. The principal edition consisted of 150 sets of the engravings, in a custom clamshell box. This copy is one of ten Collaborator's sets, each of which includes one of the cancelled blocks created by Eichenberg for the project. The block, housed in a well in the portfolio, was engraved for plate 5, "The Follies of Teaching"; the ten engravings are numbered V/X Almost all of the Collaborator's portfolios are in institutional collections. This edition is rarely available for sale. The Peacea...