Bilderbucher: Band Tiere [Picture Book: Volume Animals]

(Porchoir Illustrations) BILDERBUCHER: BAND TIERE [PICTURE BOOK: VOLUME ANIMALS] by K. F. von Freyhold. Koln am Rhein: H. Schaffstein, circa 1912. Oblong 4to - 10" x 12". Cream cloth backed porchoir decorated paper covered boards with light rubbing to the lower fore edges at the corners, additional light scattered touches of wear to the edges, light spotting to the front cover and spotting to the back cover for what is still a very nice copy of the book. Flower motif porchoir endpapers printed in green, red and yellow. [2] pp., [12] leaves of porchoir colored plates, [1] pp. publisher's advertisement. Konrad Ferdinand Edmond von Freyhold (1878-1944) was a German children's book illustrator. He studied at the Karlsruhe Academy in Karlsruhe, Germany before spending time in London, Florence and Paris where he was influenced by French Impressionism. Freyhold's first published work was in Dehmel's anthology "Buntscheck" (1904). The following year he would publish his own children's book, "B