(Basedow,J.B.).

Copper collection to J.B. Basedow's Elementarwerk für die Jugend und ihre Freunde. 94 (of 100) copper plates, (1774). Qu.4°. Jwls. trimmed a. mounted on pp. Loosely bound in gilt portfolio d. (rubbing and best.). "The work has not only artistic importance, but thanks to its extraordinary accuracy is an important document of cultural history" (L.-Oehler II, 102). - Num.: 1-96 (u. 10.2, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4). Missing 31, 37, 38, 65, 81, 82, as well as title and preface. - Depicted are scenes of children, occupations, examples of writing, musical instruments, ground plans of houses, scenes from the Bible, natural disasters, maps, etc. Largely designed and engraved by Chodowiecki, but also engraved by Schuster, Schleuen, Berolini, Sysang a.o. after designs by Schellenberg, Bang, C.H. Wolke and H.F. Schlegel. - Partly slight traces of use.