Catalog of manuscript jewellery designs

198 numb. leaves (recte 200 ; leaf 137 numbered twice and one unnumb. leaf) with hundreds of original designs in pen, pen-and-ink and wash colours of a wide range of jewellery on rectos, but including a certain number of designs on versos also. Each leaf with manuscript date on verso with indication of day, month and year. 6 leaves lacking (nos. 78 ; 114 ; 128 ; 155 ; 156 ; 174), 1 leaf torn in half. Cont. black half calf over cloth boards, manuscript paper label to front cover titled " Wilhelm Jung – angefangen 2. August 1905 – 28. Januar 1907). Endpapers lined with fancy paper. Oblong folio (340 x 260 mm). Label chipped, spine rubbed.

A fascinating manuscript catalogue by a German jewellery designer with an almost unbelievable variety of pieces of jewellery of all sorts including rings and earrings, pins and brooches, necklaces with pearls and with pendants, bracelets, cuff links, seals, ribbons, tiaras and barrettes. The majority of designs handcoloured with added wash colours, quite a number of them with manuscript numbers, some crossed out, etc. Minor thumbing and traces of usage, a wonderful catalogue, showing the intense efforts of a jewelllery designer over a period of two years to delineate a wide variety of jewellery designs on behalf of a German jewellery manufacturer.