Small Pike erotica 1932

Small Pike – Umění vtipu a pohybu: Allegorie k operám a operetám [The Art of Wit and Movement: Allegories to Operas and Operettas] Soukromý tisk, 1932 (MCMXXXII). 4to. Portfolio of 46 erotic caricature plates printed by art-printing process on heavy intaglio paper; limitation of 300 numbered copies. This copy unnumbered. Complete, all plates present. Very good condition. Small tears to portfolio cover professionally restored. Privately printed Czech portfolio of satirical erotic allegories inspired by well-known operas and operettas (including Don Juan, Othello, Carmen, Rusalka, The Magic Flute, etc.). Plates rendered in lively Art-Deco caricature style, combining theatrical humor with risqué imagery—nudes, circus scenes, mythological burlesques, and comic tableaux. Introductory leaf states the edition was intended only for the author’s friends and acquaintances and “must not be publicly sold nor placed in public libraries.” An uncommon Central European private press erotica portfolio from the early 1930s. Inv. BX4