"Die Nibelungen dem Deutschen Volke wiedererzählt von Franz Keim". Pictures and design by C.O. Czeschka.

Published by Gerlach & Wiedling. Vienna and Leipzig. 1924. 15 x 14 cm.

Gerlachs Jugend Bücherei, vol. 22. 67 pages in cloth binding. Including 16 full-page color illustrations and several small illustrations, here in plain cloth binding. Binding stained, signs of use, small name entry in the block.

"Czeschka's edition of the Nibelungen stands out from the book art around 1900 to 1910 as typical of the time in a comprehensive sense in terms of illustration, typeface, book decoration and book design. In its decorative stylization characteristic of the Viennese Secession, Carl Otto Czeschka's series of illustrations is also one of the most strongly abstracted series of pictures in children's and youth literature." (H. A. Halbey, Museum der Bücher p. 161).

Provenance : handwritten name entry.