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(NIBELUNGENLIED.) Die Nibelunge. Numerous color full-page and text illustrations and several hundred ornamental initials after designs by Joseph
(NIBELUNGENLIED.) Die Nibelunge. Numerous color full-page and text illustrations and several hundred ornamental initials after designs by Joseph Sattler, all heightened with gold. Folio, 580x415 mm, original vellum, covers slightly warped, front hinge cracked; publisher's cloth case (worn, lid loose, cracked at corners). (Berlin: J. A. Stargardt, 1898-1904)
- Notes: first sattler edition of the major epic of the German Middle Ages, limited to 200 copies, this one of only thirty copies on Japan vellum. A high point of Jugendstil book production and the career of the illustrator and graphic designer Joseph Sattler (1867-1931), Die Niebelunge was intended by the German Imperial Printing Office as its major showpiece for the 1900 Paris World's Fair but not completed in time, so that only specimen sheets were displayed. Sattler was responsible for the entire design of the book, executing the illustrations and the profusion of ornamental initials and decorations, and creating an entirely new type face.
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