VERGILIUS MARO, Publius/ SEEWALD, Richard
Bucolica. Hirtengedicht.
Berlin, Euphorion Verlag, 1923
4to, editor’s pictorial boards, unpaginated (49 p.); good copy, slight foxing to boards, spine slightly damaged
One of 120 copies of this beautiful translation of Vergilius’ Bucolica by Theodor Haecker (1879-1945) with all 10 engravings and the justification page signed by the illustrator Richard Seewald (1889-1976) and a signed dedication by Seewald to Hans Rupé. Seewald knew Rupé from the Munich intellectual life of the 1910s where they met at philosophical evenings hosted by Theodor Haecker in the winebar Acropolis. Haecker would later become one of the most radical cultural critics during the Weimar Republic and is considered the father of a christian oriented intellectual resistance to the Nazi regime. This copy has a light imprint of a Star of David in the left bottom corner of the backside which might relate to Haecker’s direct ties to resistance groups like “Die weisse Rose”. An interesting association copy that tells a poignant history.
