Album Amicorum | Der Freundschaft gewidmet, 1779-1793, manuscript in German

Album Amicorum

Oblong 8vo (185 x 104 mm), 83pp. excluding blanks, manuscript title on engraving mounted on first leaf, 9 silhouette portraits, 1 engraved silhouette, 5 watercolour illustrations, 1 pastel, 1 drawing, many cut down and mounted, contemporary half calf, marbled endpapers, housed in buckram clamshell case, browning throughout, some leaves detached, some mounted on guards, binding worn, gatherings exposed

A charming late eighteenth-century album amicorum containing entries dating from 1779 to 1793, featuring numerous silhouettes and watercolours collected in Berlin, Dresden, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, and Leipzig.