Der Gartentraum (the Garden Dream) Good First Edition, Ernst Kreidolf. German Jugendstil Children's Book

Kreidolf, Ernst. Coln: Hermann & Friedrich Schaffstein, ND circa 1911.

German Language, First Edition, Good, HC, Oblong folio,13 1/2" x 10",Unpaginated ~55pp . 

Illustrated paper over hardcover boards, cloth spine, bumping and shelf wear to tips and fore edge with exposed boards, fraying to head and tail of spine, soiling and toning to front and back boards, minor bowing to front board, text block uniformly age toned throughout with intermittent soiling, else intact, tightly bound, with bright illustrations, and unmarked illustrated endpapers. Closed tear to bottom gutter of some pages no higher than the bottom sewing station. Unpaginated, with 16 numbered, blank-verso full-color illustrations of Ernst Kreidolf's stunning lithographs. Includes a Verzeichnis der Blumennamen (List of Flower Names) for every flower included in every illustration, alongside a list of other available illustrated children's books from the same publisher.  Kreidolf (1863 – 1956) was a Swiss-born and German-educated lithographer, and leading figure of the Jugendstil movement, known for his ability to combine botanical and entomological accuracy with whimsical worlds inhabited by fairies, gnomes and anthropomorphized flowers and insects. This collection of children's poems about the lives and relationships of the flowers in the garden was one of his earliest publications after Blumenmaerchen (Flower Fairy Tale) in 1898, and Die Schlafenden Bäume (The Sleeping Trees). A prime example of Kreidolf's ability to convey conflict and complex themes in a beautiful, easily comprehensible visual language.