SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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KRAFFT, Johann August.
Schindler, Johann Josef.
Costüme und Scenen von Wien.

RARE series of Viennese popular scenes drawn by the Viennese artists A. Krafft and J. J. Schindler. The series depicts market scenes and travelling salesmen (among them butchers, woodcutters, dairymaids, water carriers, pretzel bakers, as well as fish and vegetable salespeople.

Published
Vienna: Artaria, [1826/1880]
References
Kaut 24; K. Beall (Kaufrufe und Straßenhändler) 475; not in Mayer or Eckl colls.; not in Lipperheide
Plates
10
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
Vienna: Artaria, [1826/1880]
Ref
1097

[Costumes and Scenes from Vienna.] Large oblong 4to. Fin-de-siècle marbled half calf with a diamond-shaped gilt-stamped black cover label. Worn and rubbed at the extremities. A series of 10 coloured engr. plates by A. Pasini and J. Winkler. Charming, RARE series of Viennese popular scenes drawn by the Viennese artists A. Krafft and J. J. Schindler, a student of Johann Christian Brand. Captioned throughout in German and French, except for two plates (showing a coffee-house and the Prater park). Fine, complete series, spotless and unbrowned throughout, saving the first plate in splendid contemporary colour, but later impressions taken from the original copperplates. Mounted individually; tiny edge defects. - From the collection of the industrialist and brewer Josef Wünsch (1843-1916) with his autogr. note on the flyleaf. Coloured plates in order: 1. Der Fischmarckt (Vienne). 2. Unterhaltungen im Caffehaus (Vienne). 3. Fleischer -Stand (Vienne). 4. Holzhauer u Holzschneiderinn (Vienne). 5. Volks - Scene im Prater (Vienne). 6. Milchmadchen (Vienne). 7. Wassertrager (Vienne). 8. Gemusverkauferin nach gehaltenem Marckte (Vienne). 9. Ziegen -Milch Verkauferin (Vienne). 10. Brezelbaeker (Vienne).