Der Ring des Nibelungen von Richard Wagner: Figurinen Erfunden und Gezeichnet

Berlin: Berlin Kunstdruck - und Verlags-Anstalt, 1889. First. unbound. near fine. Carl Emil Doepler. Group of 39 (of 40 total) large plates showing costume designs for all the characters in Wagner's Ring, by Carl Emil Doepler. Beautifully printed chromolithograph plates with excellent details (13-1/2" x 18"), loose as issued and protected in a new gray cloth portfolio box with red leather spine label and the original title text mounted on front. Berlin: Berlin Kunstdruck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Vormals A. & C. Kaufmann, [1889]. First edition. The 10 text pages are quite tattered at edges, but the plates, printed on heavier stock, are all in excellent clean condition with only very minor wear at marginal edges or corners of 4 plates. Lacking plate 26: "Wotan als Wanderer," but otherwise a near fine copy of this very scarce and beautifully produced work - OCLC lists only 1 copy in the Netherlands and there is only 1 auction sale record, from 1993.<br/> <br/> (Part I) Das Rheingold: 1) Rheintochter. 2) Wotan. 3) Fricka und Freia. 4) Fasolt. 5) Fafner. 6) Donner. 7) Froh. 8) Loge. 9) Alberich. 10 & 11) Die Nibelungen. 12) Erda. (Part II) Die Walkure: 13) Siegmund. 14) Sieglinde. 15) Hunding. 16) Wotan. 17) Brunnhilde. 18) Waltraute. 19) Die Walkuren Grimgerde & Gerhilde & Siegrune. 20) Ortlinde. 21) Rossweisse. 22) Schwertleite. 23) Helmwige. (Part III) Siegfried: 24) Mime. 25) Siegfried. 26) Wotan LACKING. 27) Alberich. (Part IV) Gotterdammerung: 28) Die Nornen. 29) Brunhilde. 30) Siegfried. 31) Gunther. 32-35) Mannen Gunthers. 36) Barde und Kinder. 37) Knechte mit Jagdbeute. 38) Gutrune. 39) Frauen im Gefolge Gutrunes. 40) Hagen.<br/> <br/>