INVICTUS ... MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF THE JEW

[New York: The Artist, ca. 1943?].. Five original wood engravings, image size approximately 28 x 21.5 cm, plus margins, in wood frames under plexi (ca. 45.5 x 40 cm), with wood engraved captions carefully affixed to back of each frame, accompanied by the original stiff paper folder (a bit worn) with wood-engraved caption title, and inner folder with mounted index to images and limitation statement. A couple of scuffs to frames, otherwise very good, the prints themselves very good or better. Copy "T" of an unknown number of lettered copies, in addition to 100 numbered suites, with each print signed in the lower margin. The constituent images are: "Moses"; "Bar Kochba"; "15th Century Spain"; "The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto"; and "Toward the New Day." The ascribed date for the portfolio's publication varies widely, occasionally as early as the mid-1930s. However, the subject of the fourth image ("The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto") suggests a somewhat later date, in the 1940s. Isac Friedlander (1890- 1968) was born in Mitau, Latvia. He was arrested in 1906 and imprisoned by Russian authorities for anti- Czarist political activities from 1906 to 1912. He studied art at the Academy of Rome, Italy from 1913 until 1917. He was a friend of Russian writer Maxim Gorky. Friedlander began his printing career in 1915. In 1917 he repatriated to Russia during the Kerensky regime, but in 1929 Friedlander immigrated to the US with the encouragement of his cousin Joseph Hirshhorn, where he worked full time as an artist until his death. If shipped in frames, significant extra shipping costs will be incurred.