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Im Wechsel Der Tage (page 1/4)

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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

Author: Brennecke, Adolf

Published by: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn.

City: Leipzig

Date: 1885

Total items: 26

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Cupid and rose briar]

Cupid and rose briar

A putto, or small naked boy, here carries Cupid’s bow, the sign of love and romance. He hides beneath a rose briar with thorns, leave, and a beautiful engraving of a rose. [more...] [$]

[picture: The thoughts of my spirit seek you]

The thoughts of my spirit seek you

A man sits on a rustic fence at the edge of a lake, fishing. His boat is tethered next to him. In the distance the sun sinks beneath a horizon with mountains and a forest. It’s a black-and-white sunset. [more...] [$]

[picture: Corner of full-page border (2 of 2)]

Corner of full-page border (2 of 2)

A second corner piece from the middle [US: center] of a full-page border. [more...] [$]

[picture: Page image, full-page border with wild flowers]

Page image, full-page border with wild flowers

This page is surrounded with a border consisting of a straight lines overgrown with wild flowers fom the bottom of he page and working up more than halfway. [more...] [$]

[picture: The Beach Tree]

The Beach Tree

A man and a woman, clearly a couple, stand at the stump of a tree on a waist-high bank; the man is carving their initials into it, i think. They seem rather formally dressed by modern standards, she with a [...] [more...] [$]


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