Schellmann Art, 1992. Four hardcover volumes in opaque parrafin-paper dust jackets housed in a dark/black cardboard slipcase with printed title label on front panel (as issued). First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition. Rare facsimile edition of Beuys´ sketchbooks. Granolithographs in 4-12 colors, 1168 pages in total, thereof 454 with entries by Beuys. Text in German. Each book 30 x 22 x 1.8 cm (12 x 8½ x¾ in.), edition of 365 individually numbered copies (+ 35 Hors Commerce copies- of which this is one - labled H.C. on individual limitaion sheets bound in near the end of each volume). Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 23, 1993 - January 16, 1994 at the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Traveled to the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Akademie-Galerie im Marstall, October 24 - November 28, 1993; and to the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt in 1994. Texts by Franz-Joachim Verpohl, Christian Schneegass, Dieter Koepplin, and Hans van der Grinten. Illustrated in color and black-and-white, featuring numerous reproductions of full pages from the four books featured in the project. CONDITION: Fine (the set) with hints of wear to the exremities of the dust jackets and a bit of overll rubbing and soiling, including a quarter-sized silver stain to rear panel of slipcase.

Fine