Decorative Full Vellum Binding designed

by Johann Vinenz Cissarz issued for the purpose of documenting a German city's chronicle during World War I by Johann Vinzenz Cissarz

$4,500 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Stuttgart: Verlag für Vaterländische Kunst Gesellschaft, ca. 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (16 3/4 x 11"). Elaborate gold-and brown stamped full vellum with metal clasps. Front cover with gold-embossed illustration of a dagger within double-brown border. Outer margins of front board with continuous lettering inside brown border: "Das eiserne..... More

• Binding: Leather

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