Kunstreiter Gaukler (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. One of the two illustrations on plate five is missing. One of the plates has a 1 1/4" tear to the lower border. 1" tear in title page. Small stains to front board. 3/4" tear to cloth at ends of spine. 1/4" loss of cloth at corners of boards.; 28 plates + title page. One of the two illustrations on plate number five is missing, otherwise complete. Loose as issued within a green cloth folder with gilt illustrations on front board. Page dimensions: 320mm x 240mm. The illustrations are of circus tricks, mostly involving horses. Other illustrations show trapeze, human pyramids, hoop tricks and clowns.; Folio 13" - 23" tall.

Folio. [4 pp (unpaginated).], printed in red & black, w/ decorated woodcut-engraved borders. With 36 pen & ink sketch plates tipped-in to 28 thick paper boards, each w/ red woodcut-engraved borders & red lettering in lower fore-edge of plate. Original blue-gray pictorial publisher's cloth folding portfolio, elaborate gilt & black lettering & illustration of horse trainer raising horses up on their hind legs, decorative endpapers, binder's tick of G. Fritsche, Book binder, Leipzig on lower front pastedown (minor rubbing, very minor shelfwear, slight toning to text leaves, a couple very small closed tears repaired w/ archival repair tape at fore-edges), still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated homage to the 19th-century circus horse trick riders, jugglers, clowns, and trapeze artists. All of the sepia-tinted plates have been executed with great precision and energy, displaying a tremendous vitality and talent. Lang (1838-1891) studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, studied horses in the veterinary schools and stud farms of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. He traveled extensively, and his circus illustrations have become quite desirable by enthusiasts.

2 Bde. 4°. Titel + 24 Tafeln, Titel + Widmungsblatt + 28 Tafeln. Lose-Blattsammlungen in illustr. OLwd.-Mappen. Ad 1: Mit 24 von 25 Tafeln. Es fehlt Tafel 8. Ad 28: Mit allen 28 Tafeln. - Band 1: Oberes Kapital ca. 3 cm eingerissen, Ebd. fleckig u. etw. berieben, Tafeln stellenw. leicht fleckig, Gbrsp., Band 2: Titel m. Randläsuren, Gbrsp., Mappe berieben.

München, Adolf Ackermann, 1881. 3 pp.text & 28 plts. Original portfolio (red cloth with gold]. Heinrich Lang 1838-1891, Pferde und Schlachtenmaler, Illustrator und Schriftsteller. [142952].

Ackermann, München, 1881. Titelblatt, Widmungsblatt sowie 28 aufgezogene Tafeln (ca. 23,7 x 32 cm), in goldgeprägter illustrierter Original-Leinenflügelmappe, quart, (Mappe etwas fleckig/Tafeln gering gebräunt und teils mit kleinen Eckknickspuren)---Verlag: Ackermann Verlag: Ackermann - sonst gut erhaltenes, komplettes Exemplar - 1305 Gramm.

Large linen decorated binding with small damages, 4°, 4 pp. Text and 28 sheets with reproductions of the drawings by Lang. Complete and good copy.