Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 374

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(PRINTING.) Baensch-Drugulin, Johannes. Marksteine aus der Weltlitteratur in Originalschriften. Superb decorations throughout, partly in color, by Sütterlin. Thick folio, gilt-decorated coarse green burlap, backstrip lacking, front and rear boards detached; bookplate mounted to front pastedown endpaper. sold as is. Leipzig: Drugulin, 1902

Additional Details

one of only 30 copies for collaborators, this copy printed for Felix von Luschan, Berlin, with a 2-page ALS to him from the editor tipped in.
A superb gallery of printing in all languages, accompanied by scholarly text supplied by a corps of outstanding specialists. Issued to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg''s birth.