Polko, Elise [ editor] — Dichtergrusse - Neuere Deutsche Lyrik

C F Amelang, Leipzig 1880 reprint. Cloth gilt, VG. viii+624pp, chromolithographic frontis, 31 b/w plates, 18 text illustrations, al edges gilt, attractive floral gilt design to the upper board & spine, all egdes gilt, silk endpapers, an attractive copy. Binders ticket of J R Herzog Leipzig to the endpaper, booksellers ticket of Paul Jenichen, Hamburg to the final blank. An attractively bound German poetry anthology. The editor Elsie Polko [ 1823 - 1899 ] was a well regarded German singer & poet who wrote out of neccessity, her husband having died & leaving her without a pension.