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Stockholm, A.B. Wahlstrom & Widstrand , 1925. Leather. A scarce impressively illustrated volume on the two Swedish artists Niklas Lafrensen and Elias Martin, with 96 plates of their work. A scarce work.In the publisher's full black morocco binding. An impressive volume on the two artists Niklas Lafrensen and Elias Martin.Featuring 54 plates of Niklas Lafrensen's work, and 41 plates of Elias Martin's work, each with a descriptive page preluding the engraving. Collated, complete.Lafrensen was a Swedish genre and miniature painter. Active in Paris and Stockholm, Lafrensen is considered one of the chief European miniaturist of the second half of the 18th century.Martin was a Swedish genre, history, and landscape painter and engraver from Stockholm. He is known for his watercolour paintings of Stockholm, and his landscape oil paintings that feature romantic lighting effects.With text by Karl Asplund, a Swedish poet, short story writer, and art historian. In publisher's original black morocco binding. Externally, very smart. Cracking to tail of front joint, about 5 inches. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: Niklas Lafrensen; Elias Martin. Good .