RARE & STUNNING! Unser Liederbuch (Our Songbook) | 1900/1902 German Children's Song Books | Set of 2 | B. Schott's Shut, Mainz

RARE! From turn of the century Germany, Volumes I & II of Unser Liederbuch (Our Songbook) produced by Mainz: Schott's Sohne Publishers in 1900 and 1902 with stunning, full-color illustrations by Ludwig von Zumbusch. Please take a look at our photos to get a glimpse of the beauty of these two 48-page books. Together they feature more than 60 classic German children's songs in German.

A beautiful addition to any antique children's book collection.

ABOUT THE ARTIS (Courtesy of Artnet)
Ludwig von Zumbusch was a German realist painter and illustrator. Born on July 17, 1861 in Munich, Germany to the sculptor Caspar Ritter von Zumbusch, he went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in both Vienna and Munich. Over the course of his lengthy career, Zumbusch produced primarily portraits and figural paintings of children, although he also contributed to early German poster design, and painted nudes and amusing scenes of upper-class life. Rendered in an innately academic style, his works gained him critical and commercial success, resulting in his appointment as a professor at the Munich Academy of Art in 1905, and gaining the title of Knight by the Kingdom of Bavaria the same year. Zumbusch died on February 28, 1927.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Unser Liederbuch (Our Songbook) Volumes I & II
• Compiled and edited by Friederike Merck
• Beautifully illustrated in full color by Ludwig von Zumbusch
• Published by Mainz: B Schott's Sohne, 1900 & 1902
• 48 pages each
• 64 songs in total
• Measures 10 3/8" x 81/2"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In excellent condition for their age
• Slight wear along the edges of the covers
• Bindings are nice and tight
• Dust jacket is missing (though we're not sure there was one)
• Pages are in great condition
• Inscribed on the inside front page of each book

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