Lot 44
Calligraphy.- Müller (Andreas), Wiener-Original Muster-Blätter eines neuen liegend und stehend Verzogenen Alphabetes, first and only edition, engraved title and 25 plates, Vienna, S.A.Steiner & Co., 1822.
Estimate: £500 - 700
Description
Calligraphy.- Müller (Andreas) Wiener-Original Muster-Blätter eines neuen liegend und stehend Verzogenen Alphabetes, first and only edition, engraved throughout with decorative calligraphic title and 25 plates (one for each letter of the alphabet and featuring the name of a city beginning with that letter), one or two with some letters traced in pencil, small embossed stamp of initials to lower outer corner of each leaf, foxing, light water-staining to upper margin, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed (particularly lower cover), oblong folio, Vienna, S.A.Steiner & Co., 1822.
⁂ Rare; copies recorded in Strasbourg and Vienna only.
Description
Calligraphy.- Müller (Andreas) Wiener-Original Muster-Blätter eines neuen liegend und stehend Verzogenen Alphabetes, first and only edition, engraved throughout with decorative calligraphic title and 25 plates (one for each letter of the alphabet and featuring the name of a city beginning with that letter), one or two with some letters traced in pencil, small embossed stamp of initials to lower outer corner of each leaf, foxing, light water-staining to upper margin, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed (particularly lower cover), oblong folio, Vienna, S.A.Steiner & Co., 1822.
⁂ Rare; copies recorded in Strasbourg and Vienna only.