Sla Panenka do Hajecku Chytila Tam Ptacka

Prague: No Publisher, 1940.
First Edition.

15.5cm x 12cm. [9] hand-coloured plates, [3] leaves of text. Illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers. Text is in Czech, primarily illustrations.

A suite of erotic illustrations by Jaroslav Stika to the Czech folk song ‘Sla panenka do hajecku’ (A maiden went into the grove and caught a little bird there), depicting a young woman and a little bird meeting and making love, before a final scene of the pair nursing their baby. One of 100 numbered copies on Japan paper, from a total edition of 200, the other 100 on two-colour chalk paper. This copy with the illustrations delicately hand-coloured; we have been unable to trace another coloured copy.

. Fine Condition.

AU$600