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Max ELSKAMP - The Commentaries and the ideography of the lotto game in Flanders. Followed by a glossary. Antwerp, A. De Tavernier (J.-E. Buschmann), 1914 (andidaté, printed in 1918). In-16 square, 162 x 125 paperback, blue marbled paper cover (cover faded, part of the spine restored with adhesive tape overhanging the lower cover, transfer of the cover flaps to the endpapers). ORIGINAL EDITION of Max Elskamp's only prose work, printed at 350 numbered copies. One of the 50 first copies on Arches (n° XXXVI). Lettering and caps in 3 green, orange ochre and black. Copy accompanied by the flying publisher's prospectus illuminating the Latin colophon "Omne Quod Sylvicola Plantabit Juvabit Nostrum Belgium" to read "Oh! What Dirty Pigs Jugulent Our Belgium"", the final chronogram with the spurious date of June 4, 1914 and the Latin heading surrounding the final vignette "Published In Fraud Of German Censorship". De Sadeleer, 32.
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