Jungbrunnen Märchen: Deutsche Märchen
Berlin: Fischer und Franke, 1900. First edition. 8vo, 20x17 cm, unpaginated. Publisher's blue illustrated cloth, beveled edges, silver and orange decorated endpapers by Franz Hein. Full page and vignette, black and white illustrations throughout by Franz Hein, Hugo L. Braune, Arpad Schmidhammer and Max Bernuth. Five, full color illustrations representing each story in the collection are found at the rear along with publisher's advertisements for the series. Some rubbing and staining to fore edges of boards, marginal moisture stain to rear endpaper and last advertisement leaf else clean internally and very good.
From the publisher's Fountain of Youth series, being the second volume of fairy tales, and fourth volume overall. Stories include Der Reisekamerad by Andersen, Die Gänsemagd by the Brothers Grimm, Rübezahl and Stumme Liebe by Musäus, and Zwei Märchen in Bildern by Max Bernuth. A beautiful and uncommon publication from the first years of the Jugendstil movement. . Item #5525
Price: $200.00