128 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; GERMAN text throughout, in plain type, with a few illustrations having Fraktur script. Hardcover, gray decorated cloth, top edge inked blue, 101 + 3 pages + 24 glossy unnumbered plates, total 128 pages, index, 90 b/w illustrations on plates, 310 illustrations in text, total 400 strikingly beautiful illustrations of antique b/w German bookplates of the 1800s to 1922, with artist's names. Art Nouveau predominates. ; Cover design by Fritz Wittlinger. Bookplates in this volume are decorated with all manner of graphic art including coats of arms, human figures, fabulous... View More...
