cloth
1937 · Vienna
by Rümann, Arthur
Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1937. cloth. Children's' Books. 8vo. cloth. 102+(1) pages plus 368 leaves of plates. First edition (Besterman 1306). Numbered (but not limited) edition. Boards faded and slightly warped, spine lightly sunned. Ink signature to front free endpaper, interior age-toned. The front panel of the original dust jacket (age-toned and edgeworn) is laid in. Bibliography of German children's literature, especially from the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. 368 entries. Color plates interspersed through introductory chapters; black-and-white plates grouped at the back. Plates include story illustrations, full-page facsimiles, (truncated)