[Wiener Werkst‰tte- 1 of 50 Copies] Aus Dem Alten Wien, 1844

Wien: Hof und Staatsdruckerei (Wiener Werkst‰tte), 1914.

Small quarto. Original green original green waved calf with gilt cover vignette and titles titles (Wiener Werkst‰tte), attractive color pictorial endsheets. One of 50 copies (#35) of the preferential edition on Fabriano-B¸tten Paper with "genuinely gilded initials" by the Wiener Werkst‰tte (total edition 520), superb full color double-spread title page. Binding, introduction, book decoration and initials according to designs by Dr. Rudolf Junk produced in Wien by Hof und Staatsdruckerei in collaboration with the Wiener Werkst‰tte. Stated on colophon (translated): "This book from the Hof und Staatsdruckerei in Vienna in the year 1914, a printed book in our own publishing house, in 500 numbered copies, of which the numbers 1 to 50 on Fabriano Butten, with genuinely gilded initials from the Wiener Werkst‰tte in leather bound, the numbers 51-500 on book paper... etc." Leather covers somewhat discolored, interior is fine. Most scarce.

Price: $1,850.00   Item #3625