Haufe und Lutz antiquarian bookstore in Karlsruhe, Germany, has posted its latest catalog online, featuring a wide variety of attractive items. Among the children’s and young adult literature offerings is a leporello with the tentative title “Alte Kinderreime” (Old Nursery Rhymes), which lacks any information regarding place of publication, publisher, name or year, but can likely be attributed to the Wiener Werkstätte circle from the early 1920s.
Lot 29: Old Children’s Rhymes. No place, printer, or year (Vienna, Wiener Werkstätte, ca. 1920). 9.5 x 8 cm. Leporello, [18] leaves (including cover, 9.5 x 144 cm). with 15 hand-colored woodcuts and 15 verses with hand-colored decorative frames. Color-illustrated original cover with color-illustrated endpapers and a label (“W. W.”) on the back cover. (Please refer to the detailed description of the lot for further information).
In his bibliography Bunte Welt (2008), Friedrich C. Heller* lists a similar work under entry 450, which -as a work from a private collection- has so far been on display only at the exhibition Wiener Werkstätte und das Künstlerhaus Graz in 1972. Other copies are unknown. It is a magnificent piece, though it does come with a price tag of € 6,000.
Also of interest is a shape book by Adolf Uzarski
Lot 46: Uzarski, Adolf. “Circus” Charlie Chaplin. Mainz, Jos(ef) Scholz, n.d. (1928). Large 8° (25.5 x 17.5 cm). [8] leaves with color lithographic illustrations. Color-illustrated original half-linen binding (die-cut as a silhouette picture book). Scholz’ Künstler Bilderbücher (Artists’ Picture Books) No. 392
According to the book, the images are taken from the film CHARLIE CHAPLIN in “The Circus” with permission from United Artists – Film – Verleih – G.m.b.H. and have been redrawn by Uzarski (see also Barbara Murken’s* note im Barbara Murken im Lexikon Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (Encyclopedia of Children’s and Young Adult Literature) page 12
- * Friedrich C. Heller. Die bunte Welt. Handbuch zum künstlerisch illustrierten Kinderbuch in Wien 1890 – 1938. Wien 2008
- * Barbara Murken. Adolf Uzarski. Lexikon Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. Volkach 2017