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FRITZSCHE, Gustav (editor). Moderne Buch-Einbände. Sammlung künstlerischer Original-Entwürfe zur Ornamentirung von Buchdecken. Leipzig: G. Fritzsche, 1878.
450 x 330 mm. 2 leaves of letterpress, 24 plates in color lithography by Eschebach & Schaefer. Half-leather portfolio (ties gone, very worn), title mounted on and inside front cover. Provenance: W.H. Langerveld, Dutch bookbinder (label on front).
Includes designs by C.G. Aeckerlein of Leipzig, G. Heuser of Berlin, Joseph Zaehnsdorf in London. The work was published in four parts. The plate numbering is slightly erratic, but Zaehnsdorf's own copy also counted 24 plates (collated for B.H. Breslauer by W.R.H. Laywood).
450 x 330 mm. 2 leaves of letterpress, 24 plates in color lithography by Eschebach & Schaefer. Half-leather portfolio (ties gone, very worn), title mounted on and inside front cover. Provenance: W.H. Langerveld, Dutch bookbinder (label on front).
Includes designs by C.G. Aeckerlein of Leipzig, G. Heuser of Berlin, Joseph Zaehnsdorf in London. The work was published in four parts. The plate numbering is slightly erratic, but Zaehnsdorf's own copy also counted 24 plates (collated for B.H. Breslauer by W.R.H. Laywood).