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Falke, Otto von. Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1914. In 2nd (392 x 298 mm). 153 color plates depicting 328 majolica, figures pasted in text (1 loose plate.) Blue cloth publisher's binding with gold pattern and title to front plate, title to spine. One of 200 copies "auf holländischem Bütten." Alfred Pringsheim, incidentally father-in-law of Thomas Mann, had to sell his majolica collection to pay the so-called desertion tax.The Pringsheim Collection was the largest private collection of Italian Renaissance majolica ever equaled in quality and quantity. (2)
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Falke, Otto von. Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München. Leiden, Sijthoff, 1914. In 2nd (392 x 298 mm). 153 color plates depicting 328 majolica, figures pasted in text (1 loose plate.) Blue cloth publisher's binding with gold pattern and title to front plate, title to spine. One of 200 copies "auf holländischem Bütten." Alfred Pringsheim, incidentally father-in-law of Thomas Mann, had to sell his majolica collection to pay the so-called desertion tax.The Pringsheim Collection was the largest private collection of Italian Renaissance majolica ever equaled in quality and quantity. (2)
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