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Collection
Production
- author: Alphonse Daudet
- inspiration: Felician von Myrbach-Rheinfeld
- inspiration: José Jimenes Aranda
- inspiration: Édouard de Beaumont
- inspiration: Lucio Rossi
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print office: A. Lahure
, Paris, 1885 - design of cover: Koloman Moser (?), 1903
- bookbinder: Karl Beitel, Austria, 1903
- engraver: Guillaume frères
- publisher: Calmann-Lévy, Paris
Subject
Material | Technique
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Binding: morocco
- , endpaper: curl marbled paper
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sewing
- , Binding: gold embossing
- , Binding: false bands
- , Binding: hollow back
- , illustration: wood engraving
- , gilt edges
Measurements
- number of pages: 334 page(s)
- height: 23 cm
- width: 16 cm
- depth: 2.5 cm
Inventory number
- BI 20540
Acquisition
- donation, 1903-03-27
Department
- Library and Works on Paper Collection
Description
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In 1898, Wilhelm Schölermann wrote in the magazine Ver Sacrum that the artfully designed book is an inseparable part of an artful living environment: a house without a book is like a book without decoration. The Wiener Werkstätte raised the status of the book to an artwork in its own right and noted in its review for 1905: “A book should be an artwork in its entirety, and its worth
must be measured as such.” The best designers were indispensable in order to carry out these high standards in bookmaking. Josef Hoffmann appointed Carl Beitel as head of the book bindery of the Wiener Werkstätte, whom he valued as an outstanding expert on the work of William Morris and all the important techniques, and whom he called a “man of quality”.
(Pokorny-Nagel, Kathrin)
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Bibliophile edition, Édition du Figaro, Alphonse Daudet, MAK Inv.nr. BI 20540
Last update
- 29.10.2024
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