![Illuminated manuscript, Die trostlose Wittwe und ihr Schosshund. Eine wahre Geschichte. Theils aus eigener Erfahrung, Theils nach den besten Quellen bearbeitet vom Verfasser der Werke “Eduard und Kunigunde” – “Onkle und Nichte” – so wie der illustrirten Gedichte der Grossten lebenden und todten Meister [The Disconsolate Widow and her Lapdog. A true Story]. Austria, ca.1840s.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0206_001(illuminated_manuscript_die_trostlose_wittwe_und_ihr_schosshund_eine_wa020603).jpg?w=1)
![Illuminated manuscript, Die trostlose Wittwe und ihr Schosshund. Eine wahre Geschichte. Theils aus eigener Erfahrung, Theils nach den besten Quellen bearbeitet vom Verfasser der Werke “Eduard und Kunigunde” – “Onkle und Nichte” – so wie der illustrirten Gedichte der Grossten lebenden und todten Meister [The Disconsolate Widow and her Lapdog. A true Story]. Austria, ca.1840s.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0206_002(illuminated_manuscript_die_trostlose_wittwe_und_ihr_schosshund_eine_wa020702).jpg?w=1)
![Illuminated manuscript, Die trostlose Wittwe und ihr Schosshund. Eine wahre Geschichte. Theils aus eigener Erfahrung, Theils nach den besten Quellen bearbeitet vom Verfasser der Werke “Eduard und Kunigunde” – “Onkle und Nichte” – so wie der illustrirten Gedichte der Grossten lebenden und todten Meister [The Disconsolate Widow and her Lapdog. A true Story]. Austria, ca.1840s.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0206_000(illuminated_manuscript_die_trostlose_wittwe_und_ihr_schosshund_eine_wa013400).jpg?w=1)
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Illuminated manuscript, Die trostlose Wittwe und ihr Schosshund. Eine wahre Geschichte. Theils aus eigener Erfahrung, Theils nach den besten Quellen bearbeitet vom Verfasser der Werke “Eduard und Kunigunde” – “Onkle und Nichte” – so wie der illustrirten Gedichte der Grossten lebenden und todten Meister [The Disconsolate Widow and her Lapdog. A true Story]. Austria, ca.1840s.
Manuscript on paper, 27 pages oblong quarto (c.220 x c.250 mm), 24 of these with original erotic drawings, the last two unfinished in pencil, all others pen-and-ink and watercolour, each leaf window mounted in light-blue card (305 x 360 mm). (Some soiling and wear.) 19th-century half leather over mottled boards, spine blind tooled in compartments with raised bands, orange label titled in gilt, sides tooled in blind, edges rubbed, endpapers with gold printed pattern (extremities rubbed).
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, WITH EXPLICIT DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT, for an apparently unpublished, anonymous story recounting the amorous escapades of a disconsolate widow and her devoted lapdog. 19th-century German erotic manuscripts of this quality are distinctly uncommon.
Manuscript on paper, 27 pages oblong quarto (c.220 x c.250 mm), 24 of these with original erotic drawings, the last two unfinished in pencil, all others pen-and-ink and watercolour, each leaf window mounted in light-blue card (305 x 360 mm). (Some soiling and wear.) 19th-century half leather over mottled boards, spine blind tooled in compartments with raised bands, orange label titled in gilt, sides tooled in blind, edges rubbed, endpapers with gold printed pattern (extremities rubbed).
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, WITH EXPLICIT DRAWINGS THROUGHOUT, for an apparently unpublished, anonymous story recounting the amorous escapades of a disconsolate widow and her devoted lapdog. 19th-century German erotic manuscripts of this quality are distinctly uncommon.
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