Preisgekrönte Torten - Verzierungen. Tortenverzierungen. 54 moderne Vorlagen mit Erläuterungen und einer Garnierschule

Leipzig und Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger, Konditoreibucherverlag, 1908. Tall quarto (31 x 20.5 cm.), 16, [2], 40 chromolithograph plates, most double-page, sewn on tabs so as to lay flat. FIRST EDITION. Fifty-four examples of prize winning cake decorations, with explanations and instructions for garnishing. The garnishing instructions are supplied by Court Confectioner F.W. Eikmeier, author of numerous works on confectionery and cake decoration. while the decorations are clearly typical of the late 19th/early 20th century, the colors are bright; some adhesion marks as is typical of chromolithograph plates like these. Some foxing throughout; wear to the text pages; hinges started. In publisher's blue cloth, decorated in a fin-de-siecle style in gray, black, and dark red. Near very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates three copies (NYPL, UUtah, Staatsbibliothek Berlin)].