Library of damask ribbons
The damask ribbon library was a series of books published by Walther Fiedler Leipzig. The small bands were in different colored Damastleinen -Einband elegant three-sided gilt executed. The series presented the classic favorite authors of the women's world in German. The high-circulation library won an award at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 .
The "damask ribbons" formed part of the book art movement . The loss of copyright protection in 1837 for classical works of German literature paved the way for the marketing of classical German literature.
Books
- Hans Christian Andersen : picture book without pictures
- Gottfried August Bürger : Selected poems
- Joseph von Eichendorff : From the life of a good-for-nothing
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué : Undine
- Christian Fürchtegott Gellert : Fables and Stories
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Faust (2nd part)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Selected poems
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Hermann and Dorothea
- Wilhelm Hauff : Lichtenstein
- Wilhelm Hauff : Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskeller
- Johann Peter Hebel : Treasure chest of the Rhenish family friend
- Heinrich Heine : book of songs
- Karl Immermann : Oberhof
- Theodor Körner : lyre and sword
- Nikolaus Lenau : Selected poems
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing : Minna von Barnhelm
- Marie Nathusius : Diary of a poor young lady
- Johann Karl August Musäus : Folk tales of the Germans
- Friedrich Rückert : love spring
- Moritz Gottlieb Saphir : Humoristic Lectures
- Friedrich Schiller : Selected poems
- Ernst Schulze : The enchanted rose
- Philipp Spitta : Psalter and harp
- Esaias Tegnér : Frithjofssage
- Alfred Tennyson : Enoch Arden
- Ludwig Uhland : Selected poems
- Johann Heinrich Voss : Luise
Individual evidence
- ↑ Number 176 in the Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel from July 31, 1926 on pages 962–963.