Brieger, Lothar. Das Pastell. Seine Geschichte und seine Meister. With 5 (of 9) mounted colour plates + 269 full-page ills. Berlin, Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, ca. 1920. Large 8vo. 430 pp., 1 l. Coloured ills. orig. h. cloth.

Mounting cardboards of the plates with isolated, binding + edges with some mouldstain stipples, back paled. –  THE  VERY  INFORMATIVE  STANDARDWORK  on the pastel, its history and its masters.
Offer no. 11,800 / EUR  188. (c. US$ 281.) + shipping