Die Königliche Akademie für graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe in Leipzig.
Publisher: Königliche Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe
Published: 1914
Place of publication: [Leipzig
Language: ger
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Königliche Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe -- Anniversaries, etc; Graphic arts -- Study and teaching -- Germany; Printing -- Study and teaching -- Germany; Bookbinding -- Study and teaching -- Germany; Prints -- Germany -- Specimens
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: "Zum Gedächtnis des 150 jährigen Bestehens der Leipziger Akademie im Jahre der Weltausstellung für Buchgewerbe und Graphik in Leipzig 1914" -- P. [5].

"Verzeichnis der Lehrer, Beamten und sonstigen Angestellten der Akademie von 1764 bis 1901" -- P. 48-50.

Plates include reproductions as well as original samples of letterpress and color printing, lithographs, chromolithographs, printed ephemera, woodcuts, etchings, engravings, photographic prints, embossing, facsimiles of bookbindings, and (on plate 81) one sample each of marbled paper and paste paper.

Text and some illustrations are printed on heavyweight rag paper with a watermark: the initials AL interlocked vertically under a crown and the dates 1764-1914.

LC copy incomplete: plates 6, 7, 20, 29, 30, 32, 37, 39, 40, 45, 47, 56, 63, 72 and 77 wanting. Has two leaves of original etchings/engravings inscribed by the artist to Joseph Pennell laid in at front. Forms part of the personal library materials in the Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection.