SILK AND SEQUINS
MÄNDL, Kaspar.
Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen gezogen auß Betrachtung deß bitteren Leyden und Sterbens unsers Heylands Jesu Christi, auff alle Tag der heiligen Fasten-Zeit oder Freytäg deß Jahrs außgetheilt, mit angehängter Bett-Schul oder Weis zu betrachten.
Augsburg, Matthias Wolff, 1737.
4to, pp. [6], 368, with copper-engraved frontispiece; woodcut and typographic ornaments and initials throughout; bound in contemporary pink silk, very richly decorated with metal threads, coils, and sequins, glass beads, and coloured ribbons and threads, forming on each board a central crowned monogram, large ribbon ties to fore-edge, edges gilt with gauffered borders, gilt brocade endpapers, housed in a contemporary speckled sheep pull-off case ruled in blind, lined with a printed patterned paper and a gilt brocade paper; silk darkened and worn at extremities, a few elements absent, one tie partially lost, inoffensive old repairs to case, but overall exceptionally preserved.
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Christliche Sitten-Lehr und heylsame Anmuthungen gezogen auß Betrachtung deß bitteren Leyden und Sterbens unsers Heylands Jesu Christi, auff alle Tag der heiligen Fasten-Zeit oder Freytäg deß Jahrs außgetheilt, mit angehängter Bett-Schul oder Weis zu betrachten.
A superb example of Rococo decorative binding, exploiting all available materials – silks, metals, beads, papers, gilding, and leather – to extraordinary (if perhaps excessive) effect.
Although a popular devotional work frequently reprinted in the early decades of the eighteenth century, we find only one copy of any edition of the Christliche Sitten-Lehr in the US (Munich, 1727, at Harvard) and none in the UK.
For a brocade paper closely related to our endpapers, see Kopylov, Papiers dorés d’Allemagne au siècle des lumières 118 and 120–21; the animal brocade lining the box is not found in either Kopylov or Haemmerle.
