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97, [1] pp. Illustrated with 6 original etchings by Hugo Wilkens, each with tissue guard, and each signed in pencil by the artist. Printed and hand-colored by Kunstandstalt H. Wetteroth. Folio, specially bound in full red morocco by Spamerschen Buchbinderei, cover and spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. No. 26 of 50 copies printed on hand-made Zanders paper. 

Hugo Wilkens (German, b.1888) was a book illustrator who was also involved with the important Swiss artists' colony above Asvona called Monte Veritá, which had been the home, from 18960 for an anarchist and creative group which included Carl Gustav Jung, Hermann Hesse, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Rudolf van Laban, and even Isadora Duncan. Wilkens, along with Werner Ackermann and Max Bethke, sought to convert Monte Veritá into an Expressionist artist' colony in the early 1920s. Alphonse Daudet's Lettres de Mon Moulin (1860) is a delicately sentimental memoir of humorous sketches of Provençal life. Printed in the manner of the French livres d' artistes Brief Aus Meiner Mühle is a charming interpretation of the original theme. The relatively rare examples of the German Impressionist illustrated book was characterized by subtle and harmonious interpretations of classic literature. This delicate form of illustrated book was overwhelmed by the strident and political themes which characterized the Expressionist movement which followed.