Art Forms in Nature: With an Introduction by Karl Nierdorf

New York E. Weyhe, 1929. 4to. (12 14 x 9 3/4 inches), publisher's green canvas cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the cover and spine. Fine.Published in London (by A. Zwemmer ) and in New York (by E. Weyhe), based on the German edition (by Ernst Wasmuth), this first American edition contains 120 spectacular plates, early examples of close-up botanical photography. Professor Blossfeldt's photographs are today also valued as pioneering examples of abstract images. The book is often broken up for the value of the individual plates, and the remaining intact copies are often shabby if not disbound. This is a beautiful copy of a keystone photography book, (truncated) which was reprinted in 1932, 1936 and well into the late twentieth century (1999) A Bright Copy of an Important Book (Inventory #: 2350.1929)