Sostmann, Wilhelmine. Peter Vischer. Romantisch-dramatisches Gemälde aus der Vorzeit Nürnbergs in zwei Abtheilungen.

Nuremberg, George Winter, 1832.

8vo. (4), 108 pp. With 9 coloured engraved plates and music. Contemporary marbled boards with ms. label to spine.

 450.00

First edition of this play about the sculptor Peter Vischer, with an appendix containing "several historical and art-historical notes". The protagonists (including Hans Sachs, Peter Vischer, Hermann Vischer and Carl Brentano) are pictured in attractive costumes.

First page of text stamped "Leihbibliothek C. M. Kettner Stuttgart". Slight paper defect to p. 47f. (some loss to text). Occasional slight browning. Early 20th-c. bookplate on front pastedown; binding bumped at spine-ends and hinges. Owner's name "Leo Schmid" giltstamped to lower spine-end.

References

Lipperheide Ucb 2. Goedeke X, 286.

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