The costumes of Austro-Hungarian Moravia, in thirty plates

Horn, Wilhelm. Maehrens ausgezeichnete Volkstrachten.

€ 6.000,00

First edition of this exceedingly scarce collection of costume plates from the various regions of Austro-Hungarian Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic, by the fine lithographer Wilhelm Horn (1809-91). Only two copies of this work are listed in institutions on OCLC, with one housed at the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the other at the Morgan Library in New York. This copy's complete set of thirty lithograph plates has been sumptuously hand-coloured in strikingly bright hues, heightened with gum arabic. The fine details are carefully picked out, including detailed embroidery on both men and women's clothing.