Haenel,E.
Precious Weapons. From the Dresden Armoury. Lpz, Hiersemann 1923. 4°. With 82 collotype plates, 2 of them coloured. 164 p., 1 leaf. Red saffiano binding with ribbed edges, gilt covers, edges and inner edges, gilt edges and black-golden endpapers. (Partly a little bit damaged and scuffed). No. 1 of 20 num. Ex. in hand binding by H. Sperling after a design by Erich Gruner. - "In this work for the first time the attempt is made to present the most outstanding pieces of the Electoral Saxon Armory not only in the picture, but to make them comprehensible and understandable as documents of their time from the context of their historical and artistic processes of origin and values" (Introduction).
