1925-6 The Fugger News-Letters

Description

First Edition, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Signed Binding

The first edition to the 'Second Series', and the second edition to 'The first series'.

A complete two volume set, featuring the first and second series. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty-nine monochrome plates to 'Series One'. A frontispiece and forty-five images across thirty-nine plates to 'Series Two'. Collated, both complete. 

'Fuggerzeitungen' is a term used in Germany to refer to sixteenth century handwritten newsletter. Historically, it directly derives from a collection of such newsletters put together by Octavian Secundus and Philipp Eduard Fugger. These volumes contain the Fugger News-Letters from 1568 to 1605, covering topics from the execution of Count Egmont and Count Horn in Brussels, to the establishment of the Dutch in Brazil, and much more. Edited by Victor von Klarwill, an Austrian author and editor. Translated by Pauline de Chary. With a foreword by Harry Gordon Selfridge, an American retail magnate who founded the London-based department store Selfridges. 

Bound in crushed half morocco with cloth to the boards by Birdsall, with their binder's stamp to the front blank.