[Rarebooks] FS- German Masterwerkes- 1883 Two Volumes 3/4 quarter calf

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michelle Levick, Bookmaven" <bookmaven at comcast.net>
To: <rarebooks at rarebooksmailinglist.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:48 PM
Subject: FS- German Masterwerkes- 1883 Two Volumes 3/4 quarter calf

> For your consideration:
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> Meisterwerke of German Art, Volumes I & II; Jutsum, Carl Thonet, George 
> Barrie, Boston, 1883 - I believe this is a First Edition, or First U.S. 
> Edition
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> Two elegant folio volumes of German Master Artists; lavishly illustrated 
> with tipped in engravings, printed on heavy white matting paper. Volume I, 
> covers the early German Schools Including Dutch and Flemish, referencing 
> the earliest of frescos to have been executed for Queen Theodolinda in the 
> 6th century, and the Carlovingians start of Teutonic Art, to the earliest 
> of Christian art; following through to the styles of the 13th century, and 
> 14th when styles became purer and more skillful. The principal artists of 
> 'Bohemia" being Nicholas Wurmser, of Strasburg Kunz and Theodoric of 
> Prague. Through to the Revival period. Both volumes have a running 
> detailed narrative of the periods their history, artists, influences by 
> the Church and society, and ruling principals; use of and creation of 
> materials, etc. Sampling of full page etchings and line engravings, (121 
> engravings on Wood & Facsimiles, 51 Etchings and Line engravings 
> tipped-in: Volume I, tipped in plates:  Death Riding through a Harvest 
> Landscape, Arnold Bucklin, engraver, Hecht, W.; Goethe's Fifth Roman 
> Elegy, Friederich J.H. Drake, L. Schulz; The Children's Concert, Anselm 
> Feuerbach, Karl Krautle; Lady With Parrot, Franz Von Mieris, John Burger; 
> Mary Stuart Listening to the Order of Her Execution, Carl Theodore von 
> Piloty, Doris Raab; The Hunt, Rudolf F. Henneberg, Wilhem Krauskopf; 
> Portrait of The Emperor Maximilian I, Albrecht Durer, V. Jasper; Old 
> Athens From the Garden of Venus, Joseph Hoffman, Edward Willmann; Portrait 
> of Lady Seymour, Hans Holbein, The Younger; Carl Edward Buchel; The Jewish 
> Bride, Ryn van Rembrandt, William Unger, and many others.  Volume II., 
> Covers, begins with the Great Revival period and development of the 
> national art, which took place in all the capitals of Germany, in the 
> years between 1810 and 1840; through to the 'Contemporary' German School 
> of Painting, which was many sided and divided up geographical as well as 
> aesthetically; from the Adriatic to the Baltic. Ranging from the genre of 
> miniature sized works, considered to be cheap illustrations to the immense 
> frescoes of the Ludwigskirche or Palace at Berlin, which extended from 
> quarto illustration to folios. The narration covers the various 
> geographical influences, exhibits, and areas stated in Volume II. 91 
> Engraving on wood and facsimiles; 52 etchings, line engravings & 
> Lichtdruck (photo-mechanical planographic printing to the rendition of 
> half-tones without rasters as well as in the photography a 
> photolithographic procedure, which was developed 1856 by Adolphe Louis 
> Poitevin under the designation Collotypie): A sampling of works: The 
> Flamingo Hunters, Johann, Canon, engraved by Johann Karl; Venetian Taylor 
> Shop, Eugene B. Blaas, William Unger; The Monk, Franz Lenbach, W. Hecht; 
> Haspinger, Alois Gabl, Carl Rauscher; The Empress of Austria, Emil Adam, 
> (Lichtdruck);  In The Gallery, Adolph Mesel, Johann Klaus; Bismarck or 
> Moltke?, Gustav Karl Hellquist, J. Holzapf'l; A Wolf In The Thicket, Otto 
> von Thoren, William Unger; Japanese Lady, Bruno E. U. Piglhein, 
> (Lichtdruck); Goose Market in Cracow, Alois Schonn, William Unger; 
> Marietta Da Napoli, Hans Meyer, (Original Etching); The Peasant and 
> Broker, Benjamin Vautier, Johann J. Burger. Over 370 artists mentioned or 
> represented in both volumes.
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> Three quarter calf, over brown pebbled cloth boards. Rubbed to 
> extremities, front joints to both volumes repaired, volume I front cloth 
> wrinkled, rear cloth wrinkled torn & bunched at leather edge. Few pale 
> white marks to lower front board. Five bands to spine, bright gilt title 
> and volume number. Pages 57- 59 Vol. I., have very pale spotting, not 
> plate pages, Vol. II: 1 inch closed tear to lower edge of one tissue 
> guard, and slight chip to lower edge of Mother Love tissue guard. Last 20 
> pages have toning effect stain to lower corner, not water. Marbled end 
> papers, 1/4 inch chip to e.p. upper edge volume II. Small p.o. dcorative 
> ex-libris plates to paste down, both volumes. All edges bright gilt. 
> Volumes are very tightly bound, pages except where noted, clean and 
> bright. These books are extremely heavy, please inquire about post.  A 
> magnificent and scarce compendium of  German, Flemish and Dutch artists, 
> complete with a synopsis of their works and influence. Folio, 144, 134 pp. 
> $950.00 plus post.
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