Illustrations des Oeuvres de Frédéric le Grand
By: par Adolphe Menzel ; préface et notice par Louis Gonse, texte explicatif par L. Pietsch ; gravures sur bois par O. Vogel, A. Vogel, Fr. Unzelmann et H. Muller.
Contributors: Gonse, Louis, 1846-1921.; Pietsch, Ludwig.; Vogel, Otto, 1816-1851.; Vogel, Albert, 1814-1886.; Unzelmann, Friedrich Ludwig, 1797-1854.; Müller, Hermann, wood engraver.
Publisher: H. Grevel et Co, éditeurs
Published: 1882
Place of publication: Londres
Language: fre
Subjects: Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786 -- Pictorial works; Silesian wars -- Pictorial works; Prussia (Germany) -- History -- 1740-1789 -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Other titles: Illustrations pour les oeuvres de Frédéric le Grand
Notes: Date of publication from cover.
Reproductions of two hundred engravings commissioned by Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, for Oeuvres de Frédéric le Grand. Originally intended only for the king's private distribution, the first, deluxe edition was produced at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Menzel completed the designs on wood between 1843 and 1849.
"Il a été tiré de cette édition: 500 exemplaires sur Vélin et 25 exemplaires sur Japon"--Vol. 1, p. [53].
Other French-language editions published in 1882 in Berlin and Paris.
Title in red and black.
Bound in pictorial cloth over boards.
LC copy has some unopened leaves.