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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc.

United States
About Item: Leipzig: E. Z. Steinacker, 1805. 3 parts, small oblong 4to (178 x 219 mm.). 20; 18; "19" (recte 20) pp. Each part with half-title only, titles supplied on the wrappers. 12 plates of oval hand-colored tinted aquatints by Geissler. Occasional light foxing to text. Publisher's original pale green printed wrappers (some wear and creasing, sewing loose in part 1). Only Edition, a high spot of nineteenth-century German book illustration, a fine copy in the rare original wrappers. In impressionistic prose an anonymous author delivers a dozen diverting vignettes of salesmen and their customers at the annual Leipzig trade fair, weaving stories around Geissler's masterly hand-colored aquatints. This delightful suite was issued in parts, published to coincide with the two 1804 Leipzig fairs, at Easter and Michaelmas, and the 1805 Easter fair. Together Geissler's aquatints and the text portray fortunetellers, a peep show and its barker, performing jugglers and musicians, Russian dancers, Transylvanian and Greek… Read More
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