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[004311] Warnecke, F. Die Deutschen Bucherzeichen (Ex-Libris) Von Ihrem Ursprunge Bis Zur Gegenwart. Berlin: J. A. Stargardt, 1890. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good. [9], iv-vii, [2], 2-255pp, [1], plates. Later cloth by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, title blocked in black to spine, date to foot

Spine browned, covers a little grubby, slightly rubbed to extremities, browning to endpapers, text lightly browned throughout, but clean. Title in red and black. Bookplate of a former owner (H. E. Jones) to front pastedown. Original wrappers bound in at rear (with small amount of loss to corners)

With twenty-six plates of ex-libris as called for

German bookplates, text in German.

Stargardt was a German bookseller, and was once the business partner of P.  J. Reuter. They had published several radical pamphlets during the Revolutions of 1848, and Reuter later fled to London, setting up his Telegraphic Office in 1851, establishing his eponymous news agency