Familienbuch. Gutes und Schönes aus Literatur und Kunst.
Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, [1884]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth over bevel-edged boards with gilt/black lettering and ornate black decorative stamping. 304pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 17 full-page tissue-guarded plates, decorative endpapers. Very good. Mild binding edgewear; 1886 ownership signature on inner flyleaf and slip tipped to front flyleaf with same owner's Dayton, Ohio address. Item #49157
Quite lovely and tight copy, entirely in German, of this "Family Book: Goodness and Beauty in Literature and Art," a broad compilation of prose and poetry illustrated with superb heavy stock steel engravings (historical figures, landscapes, etc.). A lovely production intended for the American German-speaking population.
Price: $75.00