Frommel,C.L.
50 pictures of Virgil's Aeneid. (Karlsruhe,... Lot 1132
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Frommel,C.L.
50 pictures of Virgil's Aeneid. (Karlsruhe, August Klose and C. Frommel 1828). Qu.4°. Title and 50 plates in steel engraving as well as 1 map in steel engraving and 1 map in lithograph on rolled China. Old hardcover (rubbed and worn). Rümann 432 - Copy of a remarkably wide-margined luxury edition. Early example of this illustration technique. Carl Ludwig Frommel (1789-1863) became acquainted with the new technique of steel engraving during a stay in London, with the Englishman Henry Winkles he opened the first steel engraving studio in Germany (cf. Thieme-Becker XII, 527). "His etchings are not fleeting sketches, but diligently executed down to the finest detail" (ADB VIII, 144). - The wide w. Margins somewhat foxed, front inner joint fragile.
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