Alter Zierat im Geiste der Neuzeit. Serie I.

Plauen: Christian Stoll, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. g. Folio Oblong. (1) 18 plates. Original quarter red cloth portfolio over decorative paper-covered boards. Decorative title page. Collection of 12 pochoir colored, 4 two color and 2 b/w lithographs with Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Oriental, Indian, Romanic, Germanic, Nordic, Gothic and various ecclesiastic motifs from M. Schaarschmidt, P. Rudolph, R. Zenker, P. Siegel, A. Peerboom, and F. Herz; lithographs by C. G. Röder.

Plauen, a city in Saxony near the Bavarian border and the Czech Republic, became a center of textile manufacturing in the late 19th century. The local design school, with its connection to the publisher Christian Stoll, became one of the trendsetting German institutions way into the 1920s.

Text in German. Binding rubbed with some wear along edges and at corners. A couple of small chips at the seam of the cloth binding. Cloth spine with one inch closed tear at tail of spine. Paper-covered spine worn at inside and endpapers browned. Title page age-toned with light foxing and some creasing at foredge. Plates with sporadic foxing, few smudges and light staining in margins, only minor affects of images on two plates. Plate 8 discolored and smudged in margins not affecting image. Some age-toning in general. Portfolio and plates in overall good to good+, at times very good condition.