GRÄTZERISCHER Schreibkalender, auf das Jahr … 1798 … Grätz, gedruckt bey Andreas Leykam … zu finden bey Joh. Michael Kaiser … [1797/8]. 
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Small 4to (206 × 151 mm), pp. [48]; pictorial woodcut title border, initial 15 pages printed in red and black, the first section interleaved, as issued, annotated in an early hand with lists of incoming and outgoing payments; small tax stamp to title; inkblots to some printed leaves; original colour block-printed wrappers featuring the arms of Francis II (1768–1835, the last Holy Roman Emperor, r.1792–1806), light wear only, calculations in ink and pencil to inside covers.
I have seen a 1795 edition of the Schreibkalender with the same wrapper design but printed only in brown ink (i.e. the key block), without the additional blue and red from the secondary block(s?) here, which supplies more visual information, such as the flower petals and the stripes on the shield, not simply colour, to the design. Leykam (c.1752–1826) began his career as a printer in Graz in the early 1780s—only the second press in the town after the Widmanstetters, who had been Graz’s sole printers since the sixteenth century—and his chief activity was the production of almanacs, news-sheets, and pamphlets (Thiel, p. 312). His earliest Grätzerischer Schreibkalender was in 1783, although no copy is extant. ‘This may be concluded from the fact that the volume for 1784 preserved in the Leykam archive includes a second instalment in Maria Theresa’s biography. Printing, format, paper, and wrappers are the same as the volume issued by Widmanstetter in 1783, so that one gets the impression of a continuation. Leykam, like Widmanstetter, probably obtained the brightly coloured paper for the wrappers, with its delicate Rococo style, from the Voitsberg paper mill, which was founded by Adolf von Wagensberg in 1763’ (op. cit., p. 313, my translation). See Viktor Thiel, ‘Andreas Leykam: das Wirken eines deutschen Druckers im südostdeutschen Grenzraum’, Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1942/43, pp. 310–9. Offered together with an 1804 edition of the Schreibkalender, with a different cover, to show the changes in design.
2350,- EUR
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Sachgebiete: Papier/Buntpapier, Almanache, Österreich, Einbände
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