Baumeister, Joseph Anton Ignaz Edler von (1791)
Die | Welt in Bildern | vorzüglich | zum Vergnügen und Unterricht der Jugend. | [rule] | Herausgegeben | von | Joseph Edlem von Baumeister. | [rule] | Vierter Band. | [vignette] | (Mit 24 Kupfertafeln.) | [rule] | Wien | gedruckt und verlegt in der k.k. priv. von Baumeisterischen Buchdruckerey. | 1791.
Collation: 2°: π2 A-N2 M1-X1 Z2; [4] 1-74 [2] p., 24 plates
Plates: 24 hand colored engraved plates numbered: "N1" to "N24". Plates 2-3, 5-7, 9, 11-12 and 15-22 are signed in a fashion similar to "J. Sollerer pinx. Mansfeld fe.," while all other plates are unsigned
Page size: 215 x 264 mm
Binding: contemporary half calf over boards, red and green spine labels and gilt lettering and ornaments on spine
Provenance: cancelled manuscript ownership on flyleaf, dated 1853
Other editions: none
References: Schuh 404
Note: The work exists in two states. One with the title vignette and plates untinted, and the other with these illustrations hand-colored. The colored copies are printed on a better quality paper that makes the volume noticeably thicker
Collection: private collection
