Book cover: Miss Träumerei
by REED, Ethel, Colour lithograph on card, 552 x 352 mm
The picture shows the cover of Albert Morris Bagby’s novel, “Miss Träumerei”. Albert Morris Bagby (1859-1941) was a musician, a patron of music and performance, and a writer. In 1895, he published his first novel, a musical romance entitled Miss Träumerei.
The lithograph also appeared in Les maîtres de l’affiche (The Masters of Poster), a famous collection of contemporary French and international posters of the years 1890-1900, published in a little smaller size for subscribers from December 1895 to November 1900 by Jules Ch�ret, co-working with the printer Chaix. The litograph in Les maîtres de l’affiche was plate 99 in Volume 3.