Ein Kalender für das Jahr 1933 Mit Fabeln nach Aesop und Anderen (Cover: Klingspor Kalendar für das Jahr 1933)

Title

en_US Ein Kalender für das Jahr 1933 Mit Fabeln nach Aesop und Anderen (Cover: Klingspor Kalendar für das Jahr 1933)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Gedruckt und herausgegeben von Gebr. Klingspor

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US von Willi Harwerth, Holzstiche

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:47Z

en_US 2004-05

en_US 1933

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1933

Abstract

en_US This is one of the happiest finds of my twenty-five years of collecting. I first knew of this book from Anne Stevenson Hobbs' book on books in the Victoria and Albert Museum. I had it in my hands when I visited the museum. I presumed that I would never have a chance at finding a copy for the collection. Germany after 1933 was not a good place for preserving ephemera like a calendar. I was amazed when the book came up on eBay and more amazed when no one bid against me! This hardbound book about 4 x 7 begins with a page for each month (2-13). Each page has a bird illustration at the top appropriate to the season. What follows is the liturgical calendar of saints and Sundays, with the Sundays printed in red, and phases of the moon noted. There follow then nineteen pages of fables, about one to a page, each with an illustration (14-32). Hobbs chooses well when she selects the woodcuts of Der schöpfende Hirsch (16) and Der Fuchs und die Schwalbe (23) for her book. They are exquisite. Her version of the former is colored, while none of the woodcuts here are colored. FC (18) and FK (26) are presented with figures situated at the top and bottom of the page, respectively, with text in between. BF (22) is another excellent woodcut. The woodcut for Der Bauch und die Glieder (29) is appropriately macabre. What a treasure! Formerly in the collection of Carl and Margaret Rollins.

Identifier

en_US 5071 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80661

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Gedruckt und herausgegeben von Gebr. Klingspor

en_US Offenbach am Main

Subject

en_US CE61.G3 K55

en_US Aesop et al

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole