Gerhard, David Gottfried

Neues Evangelisches Gesangbuch für die Königl

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Breslau Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn 1800 Preuss Schlesischen Lande zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesverehrung. Nebst einem Anhange von Gebeten und einer Vorrede von D. David Gottfried Gerhard. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo. [176 x 103 x 38 mm]. xxx, [vi], xvi, 720, [14], 98 pp. Contemporary binding of vellum over thin boards, stained light green and painted red, purple and dark green and tooled in gilt, the covers with a chain roll border flanked with various floral tools and enclosing a large geometrical centrepiece made up of gouges and fillets, with wreaths, fronds and flowers, the front cover with a crucifixion tool at the centre and the initials A.M.H. and date 1803, the rear cover with a paschal lamb at the centre. The spine divided into six green and red panels each tooled with a large flower head, decorated paper pastedowns, gilt edges, gauffered alongside the headbands and at the corners of the text block. (The colour and gilding faded in places). The title and a few other leaves are slightly soiled and someone made a start at colouring the frontispiece in brown ink. There is an ink signature dated 1838 crossed through on the front flyleaf. This is an excellent example of a painted vellum binding, known in Germany as a "Bauern Einbände", or "Peasant Binding". According to Helwig the style originated in Hungary and first appeared in Germany in the south. It was however in the north of Germany and Holland that the style became particularly popular in the eighteenth century. Earlier and cruder examples do owe something to "peasant" art, but the term is hardly applicable to the more sophisticated examples.

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• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)