Oct 12, 2006 - Sale 2088

Sale 2088 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ART NOUVEAU MASTERWORK (JUGENDSTIL.) Musaus, Johann Karl August. Die Buecher der Chronika der drei Schwestern. 6 full-page illustrations and images decoratively set within or around text by Heinrich Lefler and Josef Urban, many details heightened in gold. Square folio, patterned boards backed in vellum with gilt-lettered silk cover title label, scuff to rear cover and top edge of front cover, bottom front joint worm-holed, spine a little soiled, otherwise unusually good; endpapers lightly foxed, otherwise bright and fine. Berlin: J. A. Stargardt, 1900

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masterwork of viennese art nouveau. Entered in the 1900 Paris World Exhibition for excellence in printing. Among the finest work by Lefler and Urban, major figures of Jugendstil art, who illustrated the fairy tale with highly decorative architectural and historical design. Schug 462.