FRAKTUR BOOKPLATE] Magnificent double-page polychrome bookplate painted by Johannes Ernst Spangenberg (unsigned, as usual). Bound into Biblia, das ist; Die Gantze Heilige Schrift... Tubingen: Johann Georg Cotta, 1739. Later full calf, about 1800. 13 7/8 inches; Old Testament: 482, [2], 346, 24 pp. New Testament: 2 ff., comprising the Spangenberg bookplate on two facing pages (13 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches in total), followed by a 4 pp. manuscript birth registry on two inserted leaves, and (2), 244 (of ?) pp. The binding is worn, with one board separated and with many defective leaves; the Spangenberg bookplate has been laid down (apparently at quite an early date), with some minor marginal losses. Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, also known as the Easton Bible Artist, traveled through southeastern Pennsylvania and the adjacent New Jersey counties between 1774 and 1812. About a dozen such bookplates are attributed to him (see Earnest and Earnest Papers for Birth Dayes: A Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners pp. 718-719). The present design incorporates a splendid upper border of trumpeters against a floral border; the lower border has dogs, stags, birds and abstract motifs. The text begins "Jesus is mein Schatz auf Erden..." The palette is earthy, with brick reds, dusty blues and greens and ochres. A superb example of Fraktur illumination.
FRAKTUR BOOKPLATE] Magnificent double-page polychrome bookplate painted by Johannes Ernst Spangenberg (unsigned, as usual). Bound into Biblia, das ist; Die Gantze Heilige Schrift... Tubingen: Johann Georg Cotta, 1739. Later full calf, about 1800. 13 7/8 inches; Old Testament: 482, [2], 346, 24 pp. New Testament: 2 ff., comprising the Spangenberg bookplate on two facing pages (13 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches in total), followed by a 4 pp. manuscript birth registry on two inserted leaves, and (2), 244 (of ?) pp. The binding is worn, with one board separated and with many defective leaves; the Spangenberg bookplate has been laid down (apparently at quite an early date), with some minor marginal losses. Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, also known as the Easton Bible Artist, traveled through southeastern Pennsylvania and the adjacent New Jersey counties between 1774 and 1812. About a dozen such bookplates are attributed to him (see Earnest and Earnest Papers for Birth Dayes: A Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners pp. 718-719). The present design incorporates a splendid upper border of trumpeters against a floral border; the lower border has dogs, stags, birds and abstract motifs. The text begins "Jesus is mein Schatz auf Erden..." The palette is earthy, with brick reds, dusty blues and greens and ochres. A superb example of Fraktur illumination.
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