1902 - The Works of Friedrich Schiller - 10 Vol. #58/150 *STUNNING 3/4 MOROCCO!*

Description: ***SPECTACULAR & RARE ANTIQUE EDWARDIAN COMPLETE 10-VOLUME SET OF THE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER IN ORIGINAL 3/4 MOROCCO FINE BINDING IN STUNNING FINE CONDITION.*** EACH VOLUME OF THIS SET OF ONLY 150 COPIES CONTAINS A BEAUTIFUL HAND-COLORED FRONTISPIECE PHOTOGRAVURE OF A MUSEUM PAINTING - (a very expensive and time consuming process that produced the highest quality book plate images possible for the time.) OVERALL CONDITION: FINE & UNREAD 1902 - The Works of Friedrich Schiller, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. Each volume is translated from the original German into English by different expert translators. Published in 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts by Francis A. Niccolls & Co. as part of its exquisite Connoisseur Edition of only 150 copies, of which this is 58/150. Collated and complete in 10 volumes. In original 3/4 dark green sumptuous morocco leather binding. Each volume contains 5-6 high-quality photogravures and a hand-colored frontispiece being inserted in front of its corresponding original black and white photogravure. The frontispieces are exceptionally tinted with only a few areas of evidence of human error upon close inspection (see final two pictures). Octavo, 9” x 6.” Original and strikingly beautiful Edwardian 3/4 dark green morocco over marbled paper. Three-ribbed spine with gilded compartment floral decoration, bordering and lettering. Top edges gilt, other edges rough cut. Hand-made marbled endpapers. Thick, archival-quality paper used for the leaves. Over 52 photogravures of paintings, each with a captioned tissue guard describing the featured painting. Photogravure (in French héliogravure) is a process for printing photographs, also sometimes used for reproductive intaglio printmaking. It is a photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is grained (adding a pattern to the plate) and then coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio plate that can reproduce detailed continuous tones of a photograph. Because of its high quality and richness, photogravure was used for both original fine art prints in the form of photographs manipulated by various means on the negative and for photo-reproduction of works from other media such as paintings. A photogravure is the most sophisticated of the photomechanical processes. Strictly speaking, it's not a photograph. The image isn't made in a darkroom. Rather, the photographer's negative is transferred onto a copper plate, which is used to print or engrave the image with ink. Photogravure is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, costly process used today only by fine-art photographer-printmakers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, and physician. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. Together they founded the Weimar Theater, which became the leading theater in Germany. Their collaboration helped lead to a renaissance of drama in Germany. Schiller's philosophical work was particularly concerned with the question of human freedom, a preoccupation which also guided his historical research. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. Critics like F. J. Lamport and Erich Auerbach have noted his innovative use of dramatic structure and his creation of new forms, such as the melodrama and the bourgeois tragedy. For his achievements, Schiller was ennobled in 1802 by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, adding the nobiliary particle "von" to his name. He remained in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar until his death at 45 from tuberculosis in 1805. CONDITION: ANTIQUARIAN FINE & UNREAD The spines are square, hinges and joints firm and pages tight. Many sections of the volumes are VERY tightly bound and remarkably appear unopened. Multiple leaves are not fully cut and joined together in these sections. The gilding appears to be completely intact. The spines are gently sun-lightened. The volumes show only light rubbing to extremities from minimal shelf wear over the past 120+ years. The boards are colorful and clean with sumptuous supple leather. The “Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays Volume I” has a light red mark on its fore-edge and Volume II of this work has more rubbing than the other volumes so could be considered NEAR FINE. All of the volumes’ interiors are clean with bright, untoned pages with no writing or foxing or even ghosting from the plates (remarkably rare!). Each volume has a decorative former owner bookplate on the front pastedown. There may be the scarce mark or sign of handling in places. An exquisitely bound and spectacular copy in remarkable condition for 120+-year-old volumes in ORIGINAL fine morocco of a RARE set of only 150 with stunning-photogravures and exceptional hand-colored frontispieces. A set that any bibliophile and collector of fine antiquarian sets would be proud to prominently display in his or her collection. Please see pictures as they are an important part of the condition description. More pictures available upon request. 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