Weltausstellung in St.Louis 1904. Amtlicher Katalog der Ausstellung des Deutschen Reichs. Buchschmuck und künstlerische Leitung der Drucklegung des Katalogs: Professor Peter Behrens.
Berlin: Georg Strike, 1904. Hardcover. Full leather gilt embossed front cover, embossed and printed spine and rear cover. Decorated endpapers, gilt embossed and printed title-page. 548, (1), 31 (1) pp. ads at rear. Only illustrations seem to be the ads at rear. VG-, significant wearing to the thin leather hinges and extremities. Covers. Item #164536
Text is in German. A good copy, wearing but still solid. Peter Behrens uniformly designed and structured exhibition catalog with partly multicolored book decoration (frame lines, vignettes and ornaments, as well as typographic decorative elements in reduced Art Nouveau style). Together with the cover design, the title issue and the intentions as well as the advertisements also included in the design concept in the appendix, an outstanding book art example of the time.
OCLC: 5381326
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