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Some scanned borders and other images from «Im Wechsel Der Tage» [In the change of our days] by Adolf Brennecke, circa 1885. I bought this book at Antikvariát Dlážděná, a bookshop with low prices (or so it seemed to me) and exceptionally helpful staff, conveniently located in Prague. If you happen to be in Prague. Not too far from the railway station.
Quarto, 184pp, many illustrations.
In the change of days. Our seasons of jewelry, art and poetry. A selection from the works of our best patriotic poet. With numerous woodcuts of drawings outstanding artist and photogravures after the originals of FA Kaulbach, C. Niczky, Th. von der Beek and R. Epp.
Title: Im Wechsel Der Tage
Published by: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn.
City: Leipzig
Date: 1885
Total items: 30
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Vignetted Letter W With Bird in forest]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/wm/big/040-initial-w-spring-vignette-q67-153x200.jpg "[picture: Vignetted Letter W With Bird in forest]")
Vignetted Letter W With Bird in forest
A rustic initial letter W with a built-in illustration showing a bird sitting on a twig and singing, with winter trees in the background: the bird is perhaps heralding the Spring. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Rothenberg Castle Ruins]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/wm/big/122-rothenberg-ruined-cloisters-moonlight-q75-228x200.jpg "[picture: Rothenberg Castle Ruins]")
![[picture: The Proposal]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/wm/big/090-Forest-of-Romance-detail-proposal-320x200.jpg "[picture: The Proposal]")
![[picture: The Abandoned Water-Mill]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/wm/big/118-old-overgrown-wooden-water-mill-q75-93x200.jpg "[picture: The Abandoned Water-Mill]")
The drawing shows an old abandoned watermill, the wooden walls rotting away, the thatched roof uneven, the waterwheel still and rotten, the whole building overgrown. Romantic poems about deserted mills became popular in the second half of the nineteenth century, as mechanisation made a lot of them obsolete, and the mill here illustrates [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Full page border of wild flowers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/wm/big/081-wild-flower-border-q85-138x200.jpg "[picture: Full page border of wild flowers]")
Full page border of wild flowers
The wild flowers on this vintage full-page border are growing so verdantly and enthusiastically that they don’t leave much room for the text! [more...] [$]
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