Der Familienschatz (The Family Treasure). Ludwig Richter. Published by Georg Wigand, Leipzig, Germany, (ca. 1890).
 
German Children's book.
65 woodcuts based on drawings by Ludwig Richter.
 
Adrian Ludwig Richter, a 19th-century German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Grimm, for whom he produced several woodcuts. A leading painter and printmaker of the later Romantic period in Germany.

Yellow cloth cover with fancy black title & center front illustrated art knight (holding flag) depiction. Secure binding with nice clean pages. Cover has some mild foxing at spine & edge otherwise good. 8-1/2 x 6 with 64 pages. Circa 1890. Nice drawings throughout!