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W.G. Becker's Taschenbuch zum geselligne Vernügen / herausgegeben von Friedrich Kind ; auf das Jahr 1820.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AY856 .B43 1820
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Alphabet--Pictorial works.
- Alphabet.
- Almanacs, German--Germany--Leipzig.
- Almanacs, German.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 422, [2] p., [22] leaves of plates, 24 p. of plates : ill., music, diagrams ; 12 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leipzig : Bei Georg Joachim Göschen ; Wien : In der Carl Geroldschen Buchhandlung, [1820]
- Notes:
- "Tanztouren ... von Lauchery": 24 p. of engraved plates of music and dance diagrams between p. 412 and 413.
- Following p. 412 and preceding the "Tanztouren" are 13 plates of a filigree silhouette-alphabet cut by Adele Schopenhauer. This is described on p. viii-ix: " ... das Räthsel-Alphabet ... ist im Original von einem geist- und kunstreichen Fräulein aus freier Hand mit der Scheere ausgeschnitten."
- "Bei Georg Joachim Göschen in Leipzig sind erschienen": P. [423]-[424].
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.
- RBC copy has illegible ms. inscription at foot of title leaf.
- RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Susanne Schulz-Falster Rare Books.
- RBC copy: plates [20]-[22] detached from spine.
- Cited in:
- Lanckorońska and Rümann. Geschichte der deutschen Taschenbücher und Almanache aus der klassisch-romantischen Zeit, p. 104
- OCLC:
- 71354339
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