Bilderbucher: Band Tiere [Picture Book: Volume Animals]

(Porchoir Illustrations) BILDERBUCHER: BAND TIERE [PICTURE BOOK: VOLUME ANIMALS] by K. F. von Freyhold. Koln am Rhein: H. Schaffstein, circa 1912. Oblong 4to - 10" x 12". Cream cloth backed porchoir decorated paper covered boards with light rubbing to the lower fore edges at the corners, additional light scattered touches of wear to the edges, light spotting to the front cover and spotting to the back cover for what is still a very nice copy of the book. Flower motif porchoir endpapers printed in green, red and yellow. [2] pp., [12] leaves of porchoir colored plates, [1] pp. publisher's advertisement. Konrad Ferdinand Edmond von Freyhold (1878-1944) was a German children's book illustrator. He studied at the Karlsruhe Academy in Karlsruhe, Germany before spending time in London, Florence and Paris where he was influenced by French Impressionism. Freyhold's first published work was in Dehmel's anthology "Buntscheck" (1904). The following year he would publish his own children's book, "Bilderbucher: Band Tiere" (1905), a later copy of which is offered here. Other than the porchoir decorated letterpress title page, this is a book without words, but rest assured, Freyhold's porchoir illustrations are so powerful and breathtaking that words would just get in the way. Freyhold has created twelve individual worlds where animals, people and plants coexist in a dreamlike state of happiness and perfection; internally the book is without flaw. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. # 001159