Wer kommt?
(Who's Coming?)
1910
(Who's Coming?)
1910
'Wer kommt? : ein Buch für Kinder von 3 bis 7 Jahren' (Who's Coming? - a Book for Children aged 3 to 7 Years) is online at the State Library of Berlin. There are a few illustrations at the site not displayed in this post. The images above were cropped slightly from the full page layouts.
These delightful chromolithographs detailing the house visitors were produced by Julie Conz to accompany short verses composed by Julie Neunhöffer. This high quality book was issued by the Attenkofer Publishing Company in 1910 in Straubing in Lower
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Lovely, thank you!
Lovely indeed, even the endpapers. The Pushpin guys must have a library full of books in this style.
The quality is what I expect of late 19th c | early 20th c. Philadelphia/New York printing. I'm not sure I've seen such good quality German book lithos from around the same date (or [m]any other places for that matter). This is the sort of book you expect to see on the Library of Congress site. (having said that, the illustrations I omitted had some slight multi-stone ghosting [like you see in newspaper comics] so it's not a perfect copy.
So lovely.
Not to nitpick or anything, but Straubing is in Bavaria, not Lower Saxony.
Ha! Not at all. That's an example of me not being able to read and remember from one browser tab to the next one. Thanks - I'll change it. *My kingdom for a secretary!*
some of the pictures remind me on Carl Larsson. Very similar style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Larsson
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