Foreward Rudolf Tavel Text Johann (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Portfolio. 4to. Franco-Suisse Edition, Bern, Switzerland. 1913. 12 tipped in original photo plates. Text in German. Bound in a printed portfolio with original canvas wallet with coat of arms title design. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (light soil present to the rear panel of the portfolio, corners bumped). No ownership marks present. Title page and text forward lightly toned. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The idyllic photographs by Hermann Stauder (1887-1949) with a text by Tavel, who complains: "The city and the land have come into such close contact that every year the urban creature floods the villages and the homelike mood among the broad With regret we pursue the disappearance of the idyll, the life poetry, which once also sheds light on a hard peasant life. " E-111; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.