The Masterpieces of German Art, Illustrated. Being a Biographical History of Art in Germany and the Netherlands, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. in Two Volumes. (Edition de Luxe)
Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., Publishers, 1884. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2274020
Limited edition, #809 of 1000, this copy subscribed for by Mrs. W.K. Sayre of Phelps, New York. Lightly to moderately foxed throughout, spine and corners a bit rubbed with some drying of leather, two modern Austrian prints laid in.
Complete in two folio volumes. xi, 98 pp., with 50 photogravures and 98 wood engravings; ix, 92 pp., with 50 photogravures and 92 wood engravings. Brown leather spines and corners over cloth boards, gilt titles, decorated endpapers. Numerous photogravures and woodcuts throughout, reproduced from works by several hundred artists representing the German, Flemish, and Dutch schools, with biographical information about each.
Price: $350.00