30 Ex Libris. Original Woodcuts,1935 - 1937

S. l.: Hodonin, 1938. Softcover. Very good. First edition, limited to 120 signed, inscribed, and numbered copies (this copy #116); 11 1/2 x 8; pp. [8] - two loose sheets, folded; light age-toning to margins and small cuts to tips of spine; 30 loose sheets of textured brown stock with bookplates pasted on; cloth-backed, bluish-green portfolio with nicks and small cuts to top edge, else very minor wear; overall in very good to near fine condition.Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (1895 - 1942) was a Czech artist, graphic designer, and educator. He was brilliant in various techniques and mediums, but would be specifically remembered for his woodcuts, linocuts, and (truncated) etchings, which he usually created as series on particular topics. He exhibited his works all over the world and was appointed the Chairman of the Czech delegation to the International Bookplate Exhibition in Los Angeles in 1936. After Germany occupied his country, Dobrovolsky joined the Obrana Naroda (Defending the Nation) - the largest, anti-Nazi, resistance organization in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He was arrested in September of 1940 and thrown in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. He died at the camp in 1942.His current work contains 30 + 2 stunning examples of his bookplates, with original woodcuts. (Inventory #: 001821)