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German Romantic binding with onlaid panels of pearl embroidery
Manuscript album in German current script of Therese von Doering, containing poems of various authors, written between 1844 and 1872 in Greiz in Thüringen etc.
8vo (165 x 105 mm). 92 pages.
Brown calf, gold tooled in romantic style. On the covers a broad border of various tools with in the centre a pearl embroidery with leave motifs, on the upper cover in brown and black on a blue background and on the lower cover leaves in silver and black on a blue background. (105 x 62 mm). Flat spine, gold tooled. Turn ins with a decorative roll. End leaves of watered silk paper. White silk place marker. Edges gilt. Collection of poems of i.a. Geibel, Goethe, Heine, Körner, Julius Sturm, Alphonse de Lamartine and some prayers. Written in several hands, as a kind of Album amicorum. The pages are filled out with text, often the author and the date of the notation are mentioned.
-Provenance: Therese von Doering, née Walz, 1823 Greiz-1898 Bad Köstritz.
-Condition: Leather of the joints broken.; Spine glued back carefully; 6 pearls on the edge missing (not disturbing); End leaves oxidated; A remarkable pearl binding.
Brown calf, gold tooled in romantic style. On the covers a broad border of various tools with in the centre a pearl embroidery with leave motifs, on the upper cover in brown and black on a blue background and on the lower cover leaves in silver and black on a blue background. (105 x 62 mm). Flat spine, gold tooled. Turn ins with a decorative roll. End leaves of watered silk paper. White silk place marker. Edges gilt. Collection of poems of i.a. Geibel, Goethe, Heine, Körner, Julius Sturm, Alphonse de Lamartine and some prayers. Written in several hands, as a kind of Album amicorum. The pages are filled out with text, often the author and the date of the notation are mentioned.
-Provenance: Therese von Doering, née Walz, 1823 Greiz-1898 Bad Köstritz.
-Condition: Leather of the joints broken.; Spine glued back carefully; 6 pearls on the edge missing (not disturbing); End leaves oxidated; A remarkable pearl binding.