kaulbach william illus (4 Ergebnisse)

Leather bound hardback. The book is bound in rubbed embossed leather with marbled endpaper and gilt dentelles and page edges, the hinges are a little weak. The plates are tipped in, there are some marginal fingermarks and some slight marginal brownin g throughout. Illustrated, 22 plates with accompanying text.

Hardcover. Zustand: good. Unpaginated. 19 cm. Frontispiece and 21 pasted-in plates with descriptions. Leather volume with blank impressing, gilt edges. Worn extremities. Marbled endpapers. Torn spine head. Warped pages. Some thumbing. Includes Goethe and the Muse, Lotte, Iphigenia, Gretchen, Helena, Hermann and Dorotea, Adelheid, etc. as well as Goethe in Frankfurt and Weimar.

8vo. [iv], 112 pp. With tipped-in plates. Elaborately bound in full deep black- and gilt-stamped red morocco, a.e.g.; some shelf-wear to bottom edges. With a very small green label affixed to the front pastedown: Macniven & Wallace, [booksellers] Edinburgh. Laid in is a manuscript note from C, E. Baker, 8/30/1885, presenting this book to the Revd. Armstrong Black, August 29th, 1885. Very good. Though the binding is not signed, it is a handsome Victorian binding, well preserved, with the lovely decoratively stamped endsheets. Macniven & Wallace was a bookseller in Edinburgh. They may have commissioned this binding. / The artist for the plates, Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805-1874) was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. He is associated with the Dusseldorf school of painting.

Mounted photos from the Original Drawings of William Kaulbach, 9 x 6.5", full gilt-lettered embossed leather; aeg, spine sunned, covers a little rubbed, extremities a bit worn, hinges loose but still a nice copy of this original edition. Text by G.H. Lewes.