Brecht, George and Rudolf Rieser. Analphabetikon. Encyclopedia for use by readers and non-readers. Analphabeticon. Encyclopedia for the Use of the Lettered and the Unlettered. / L'Analphabeticon. Enyclopedie à l'usage des lettrés et des illettrés. 16 volumes. Illustrated throughout with color silkscreens. Vaduz/Salzburg, Contempora Libri et Artes, 1981. 2352 pp. (unpaginated), Chinese binding. 17.5 x 12 cm. Flexible original boards with mounted printed original dust jackets as well as illustrated original cloth bindings (covers slightly rubbed in places, 1 spine somewhat browned, 4 volumes slightly brownstained, especially on the spine). Papiergesänge, exhibition catalog Bayerische Staatsbibiothek, 1992, no. 138 - copy of Edition B with the screenprints printed in color and the endpapers printed in color. 9 volumes with the French belly band, 1 volume with the English belly band and 6 with the German belly band, all volumes signed by G. Brecht and the art bookbinder R. Rieser, on the inside back cover of the banderole. - The elaborately produced encyclopaedia, consisting solely of hand-printed serigraphs, was published in three different editions of 27 copies each. - The volumes themselves deliberately do without title pages, volume details and imprint, with information on the title and imprint (in German, English, French, Schwyzerdütsch or Chinese) only appearing on the belly bands. - "The playful, witty contrast between the small pictures and the elaborate, traditional production of the volumes gives the work its special charm." (Papiergesänge). - Untrimmed, internally immaculate. - Includes: German order card with precise details of the different editions A, B and C. - Provenance: Estate of Rudolf Rieser.