Taschenflora des Alpen-Wanderers / C. Schröter

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Taschenflora des Alpen-Wanderers / C. Schröter

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.293

Description

24 chromolithographed plate illustration of wildflowers. [Pocket Flora of the Alpine Hiker] Title on cover: "Alpen-Flora" Indexes of floral names in Latin, German, French and English.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Nature, Flowers, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

8-1/4 in

Width

5-1/4 in

Book Details

Author

Carl Schroter

Illustrator

Ludwig Schröter

Edition

Seventh

Publisher

Raustein

Place Published

City

Zurich

Country

Switzerland

Continent

Europe

Date Published

1902

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Bound in green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Stamped design to front cover depicting array of alpine flowers below a circle of snow-covered mountains against a blue sky. Floral decorated endpapers. Lithographed by Werner and Winter, Frankfurt. Later editions issued with dust jackets, but without the decorated cover and the chromolithographed plates.

Notes

Preface to 7th edition dated 1902.

Exhibition

Summer Publisher's Bindings