Der Gesangverein "brullaria" Und Seine Stiftungsfest (the Choral Society of the "Howlers" and Its Founders Day) by Baumbach, Rudolf and Ludwig Bechstein - 1893

Munich: Friedrich Adolf Ackeremann, 1893. Oblong folio, green cloth with color pictorial paste-down illustration within gilt border. Excellent copy of the first edition. Fifteen full page color plates and vignettes in color or black and white. An anthropomorphic German juvenile in the tradition of Kaulbach and Grandville. The chapters describe the Festival day from the festival meadow to the square to the rehearsal to the concert and the ball, the arrival of the beer wagon, the wine cellar celebration and so on. Seebass, Alte Kinderbucher, 138: "Sehr amusantes". A color illustration may be found on my website by clicking on Catalogue 31.. Cloth with Color Illustration. Excellent. Illus. by Rudolf Baumbach. Oblong Folio.