Gregor (Joseph) Denkmäler des Theaters. Inszenierung/Dekoration Kostüm des Theaters under der grossen Feste aller Zeiten, 12 vol., [a complete set], one of 544 sets, this set for the Austrian musicologist Otto Deutsch (one of 44 unnumbered for presentation), 355 plates tipped into 270 mounts, several colour or tinted, vol.1 with light spotting to mounts, each volume with loosely-inserted accompanying text booklet in original wrappers, loose as issued in original half vellum portfolios, paper label to upper covers, a little rubbed and soiled, a few neatly rebacked or repaired, large folio & oblong folio, Vienna & Munich, [1930].

⁂ A complete set of this mammoth publication, issued under the joint auspices of the Austrian National Library and of the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe der Denkmäler des Theaters, reproducing some of the most spectacular costume and set designs produced in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Rare to find a complete set.

Comprising: Vol.I L.O.Burnacini. Maschere, 20 plates; Vol.II Szenische Architektur und Architektur-Phantasien, 22 plates; Vol.III A.D.Bertoli. Desseins, 32 plates; Vol.IV Pompe funèbre de S.A.R.Charles III Duc de Lorraine, 13 plates; Vol.V Altvlaemisches und altniederlaendisches Theater, 22 plates; Vol.VI Cours de Testes et de Bague faites par le Roy en l’année 1662, 21 plates; Vol.VII Theater und Garten, 29 plates (on 23 mounts); Vol.VIII Groteskkomödie und Stegreifstuck, 39 plates (on 25 mounts); Vol.IX Theater des Mittelaltes, 27 plates (on 20 mounts); Vol.X Magna Allegoria Mortis Imagines, 35 plates (on 22 mounts); Vol.XI Feste des Sonnenkoenigs, 51 plates (on 23 mounts); Vol.XII Wiens letzte grosse Theaterzeit, 44 plates (on 29 mounts).