650 - Bindings—Red and green felt bands with cover appliqués made of embossed gold paper and a pair of beak-to-beak doves made of painted papier-mâché in the center of each front cover. Probably Pirna, 1845. 20.5 x 14 cm (one spine rubbed, covers slightly scuffed, one gold braid loose).

Bindings—Red and green felt bands with cover appliqués made of embossed gold paper and a pair of beak-to-beak doves made of painted papier-mâché in the center of each front cover. Probably Pirna, 1845. 20.5 x 14 cm (one spine rubbed, covers slightly scuffed, one gold braid loose). Similarly designed handwritten congratulatory poems (2 leaves each) on the occasion of the wedding of shipbuilder and shipowner Ernst Dreyer (1816–99) and his first wife, Juliane Jensen (1822–65) in Altona on November 19, 1845; one “from a well-meaning friend, Johann Heinrich Clauss in Pirna,” the other anonymous. Both feature blind-embossed figurative vignettes (approx. 6 x 12 cm) at the top depicting a mountainous river landscape (presumably the Elbe Sandstone Mountains); one is titled “Connecting Bridge” in the embossing, the other features a viewing platform over the river. - Some finger stains and glue marks.