[Kreidolf, Ernst] Der Gartentraum. Neue Blemenmarchen

Koln: Schaffstein, 1911.

First edition. Oblong folio. Original cloth-backed color pictorial paper covered boards, color illustrated endpapers. 16 exquisite full-page color illustrations by Ernst Kreidolf among his finest ever rendered. Many consider these illustrations to be Kreidolf's most innovative and certainly expressing his most creative interpretations in anthropormorphic design. All plates printed on one-side only. Containing verses to a variety of anthropomorphic images including flowers of different seasons, aquatic plants, alpine flowers, medicinal plants, etc. Bottom of spine fryerd, corners worn, a bit soiled, but a very good, sound copy of a wonderful Jugendstil classic.

Price: $1,250.00   Item #2109