Author: SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-1805),
Title: Het Lied van de Klok. [translated into dutch after the original german Das Lied von der Glocke, by H.P. Dewald].
Description: Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, [circa], 1880. Large 4°. Original cloth. gilded covertitle within a abundant gilded ornamental border, gilded spine, all edges gilded, blind-stamped lower outer cover. Ti.-p. printed in red and black, title witin a decorative monochrome border, large decorative pub. device at tail, original slilken endpapers. Hftitle with a very large decorative semi-heraldic device title in red type at tail and motto Vivos Voco. Mortuos Plango. Fulgura Franco (verso blank). 55pp. 6 captioned monochrome copper plates with tissue guards, many monochrome woodcuts in text and full page. Text and woodcuts printed within elaborate decorative borders designed by Alexander Liezen Mayer. This edition NOT called-for in Royal Dutch Library KB. A fine copy in original elaborate gilded publ. cloth. (some minimal occasional foxing to tissue guards, NOT affecting plates, spine sunned and skilfully restored).

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