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18 - Friendship Books.- Friendship book of GL Back. Dated between 1789 and 1792. Mostly Jena and Eisenberg. With 128 handwritten entries on over 270 leaves. With 1 watercolor title page drawing 'Dedicated to patrons and friends by GL Back' as well as with 25 watercolors (one of which is blackened), 16 silhouettes mostly with watercolor borders, 5 pen drawings, 2 leaves with musical staves and 1 mounted colored copper engraving. Oblong octavo. Contemporary leather binding with gilt spine and gilt edges (rubbed, slightly bumped). [Sayings and poems, mostly by student friends from the faculties of theology and music in Jena, as well as some family members such as the father Johann Andreas Back, schoolmaster from Korbußen in Thuringia, his three brothers (signed 'Back II', 'Back III', 'Back IV'), the musician Carl Friedrich Baumgartner (1740-1824) with some musical staves, the philologist Johann Gottlob Ludwig Ramshorn (1768-1837), the theologian Christian Friedrich Jacobi (1755-1821), Hv Bachoff, Johann Ernst, Johann Benjamin and Ernestine Schumann, and others. Approx. 15 entries with student circles and 5 depictions of readers. The last 12 leaves with a handwritten index. - Watercolor drawing of a skull, above it in a circle the title 'Memento mori' on the back endpaper verso. Several watercolors and silhouettes depicting readers. - A few pages are missing. - Some minor foxing.]
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Friendship Books.- Friendship book of GL Back. Dated between 1789 and 1792. Mostly Jena and Eisenberg. With 128 handwritten entries on over 270 leaves. With 1 watercolor title page drawing 'Dedicated to patrons and friends by GL Back' as well as with 25 watercolors (one of which is blackened), 16 silhouettes mostly with watercolor borders, 5 pen drawings, 2 leaves with musical staves and 1 mounted colored copper engraving. Oblong octavo. Contemporary leather binding with gilt spine and gilt edges (rubbed, slightly bumped). [Sayings and poems, mostly by student friends from the faculties of theology and music in Jena, as well as some family members such as the father Johann Andreas Back, schoolmaster from Korbußen in Thuringia, his three brothers (signed 'Back II', 'Back III', 'Back IV'), the musician Carl Friedrich Baumgartner (1740-1824) with some musical staves, the philologist Johann Gottlob Ludwig Ramshorn (1768-1837), the theologian Christian Friedrich Jacobi (1755-1821), Hv Bachoff, Johann Ernst, Johann Benjamin and Ernestine Schumann, and others. Approx. 15 entries with student circles and 5 depictions of readers. The last 12 leaves with a handwritten index. - Watercolor drawing of a skull, above it in a circle the title 'Memento mori' on the back endpaper verso. Several watercolors and silhouettes depicting readers. - A few pages are missing. - Some minor foxing.]
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