Geistliche und Liebliche Lieder, Welche der Geist des Glaubens, 1755

Title:

Geistliche und Liebliche Lieder, Welche der Geist des Glaubens

Author:

Luther, Martin

Imprint Date:

1755

Publishing Colophon:

Berlin, Verlegts sel. Josua David Schaz, Buchh. an der langen Brücke, Erben, und gedruckt bey Samuel König, priv. Buchdrucker. 1755.

Binding:

Full tanned leather binding with gold-tooled personalization, blockprinted and stencilled endpapers, all gilt and gauffered textblock edges

Paper:

Single-color blockprint with stencilled fills: blue positive floral vine design with diffuse red, yellow, green, and blue stencilled accents

Collector's Notes:

The fills seem to have been applied so wet—based on how they’ve bled and diffused to formlessness—that they can only have been applied directly through a stencil or with a brush, but the consistent mis-registration suggests the former.

Collection ID:

26.023