first edition Contemporary Half Green Calf. Marbled paper pastedown on boards.
1845-1847 · Leipzig
by Artists include Conrad Weissner, Conrad, Franz Fink, Carl Meyer, Friedrich Funk, Hugo Finck, etc.
Leipzig: Böhme. Plates printed by Halle & Walther, Weimar. , 1845-1847. First Edition. Contemporary Half Green Calf. Marbled paper pastedown on boards. . Very Good Minus. Complete three year run of Biedermeier period beautiful plate or illustration-oriented German decorative arts publication. Styles promoted include neo-classical, Greek and Gothic Revival -- in other words, the full range of styles associated with the Biedermeier period. While this was a German publication and Biedermeier was most tightly associated with the German-speaking world, the designs shown here are very much in keeping with the designs coming out of other parts of Europe and America. 4to. 28.5 by 19 cm. 108 plates, most of which are color plates, depicting ovens, urns, bowls, other porcelain ware, mantels, friezes, cornices, other ornament and architectural features. Explanations of the plates are pasted onto the backs of some of the plates, several plate explanations running on a single sheet, which is cut smaller than the plates. Plates are numbered in three series, essentially. The plates were issued four at a time. Original wrappers bound in. The publication is scarce, with no institutional copies found outside of Europe, and all but two of these in Germany. The magazine was published concurrently, or slightly later, in Weimar, by a different publisher. Condition: foxing throughout, sometimes heavier in darkness. Binding worn along edges, and marbling surface sometimes rubbed. Spine calf darkened.
(Inventory #: 006823)