1 December 1923 Format 2°, 30.7x23.4 cm. Continuous pagination pp. 247–270, in Czech. 5 pictorial supplements (4 of them in colour). Published by the Spolek Typografia in Prague on 1 December 1923. A festive issue of the journal Typografia devoted to the important Czech typographer and graphic artist Vojtěch Preissig on his 50th birthday. Also inserted are 2 supplements of Typografie, volume XXXVI, no. 9, and the obituary for V. Preissig by the Sdružení českých umělců-grafiků Hollar, dated 11 June 1945. Very good condition, only a few dog-eared corners, slightly creased cover. Vojtěch Preissig – graphic artist, painter and illustrator. He studied under Bedřich Ohmann at the Prague School of Applied Arts from 1892 to 1897, then in 1898 travelled via Vienna and Munich to Paris, where he briefly collaborated with A. Mucha and at the same time studied graphic techniques in the private studios of Delaunay and Schmid. He founded the journal Česká grafika, and was a member of the Mánes Union of Fine Arts and of the Hollar Association of Czech Graphic Artists. In 1910 he left for the USA. There he worked as a teacher; after returning to Prague in 1931 he devoted himself to abstract painting.