Fairy tale by Ernst Preczang. Büchergilde Gutenberg, Leipzig 1925. Original half parchment binding with black title imprint. Red endpapers. Calligraphic lettering for the title and text by Curt Reibetantz. 29.2 x 23.4 cm. 30 pp., 2 leaves. With 9 original woodcuts (7 of which are full-page) by Otto Rudolf Schatz. Reference: Gleis 2016, 2.107; Cabuk Schatz 2018, p. 41; Belvedere online WVZ ex 32039
Beautiful and first artist's book by the Büchergilde Gutenberg (founded in Leipzig in 1924, based in Berlin from 1926), which had 85,000 members by the time it was forced to disband in 1933.
