A Woman of No Importance by Wilde, Oscar - 1894

1907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches, plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Matted and Framed, signed in pencil. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches, plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Delicate and Sympathetic Portrait of the Young Wilde. Hermann Struck (1876-1944)is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe, including Herzl, Ibsen, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Rutenberg et al. He was born into an Orthodox Berlin family and subsequently studied at the Berlin Academy under Max Koner and Hans Meyer. He joined the Zionist movement at an early age and in 1903, after several study trips throughout Europe, he visited Palestine, and on his way back to Germany stopped in Vienna, where he was introduced to Herzl. It was this meeting that inspired the famous portrait etching of the Zionist leader. During World War I Struck served with the German Army in Lithuania, where he came in contact with Eastern European Jews and embraced their way… Read More

First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red (lower right corner of upper cover replaced), uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase.


Printed by The Chiswick Press.


Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed.

1907. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches, plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Matted and Framed, signed in pencil. Etching on paper; paper 11-3/4 x 9 inches, plate 5-3/4 x 4 inches. 1 vols. Delicate and Sympathetic Portrait of the Young Wilde. Hermann Struck (1876-1944)is recognized for his extensive landscapes and portraits of noted personalities in early 20th century Europe, including Herzl, Ibsen, Nietzsche, Freud, Einstein, Rutenberg et al. He was born into an Orthodox Berlin family and subsequently studied at the Berlin Academy under Max Koner and Hans Meyer. He joined the Zionist movement at an early age and in 1903, after several study trips throughout Europe, he visited Palestine, and on his way back to Germany stopped in Vienna, where he was introduced to Herzl. It was this meeting that inspired the famous portrait etching of the Zionist leader. During World War I Struck served with the German Army in Lithuania, where he came in contact with Eastern European Jews and embraced their way… Read More

First edition. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2". Original brown wrappers stamped in red (lower right corner of upper cover replaced), uncut and mostly unopened. Very good. 98 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Enclosed in a plum half morocco slipcase.


Printed by The Chiswick Press.


Mason 367 - only 50 copies were printed.