(Floral Decoration)    OLBERTZ, J.   MUSTERBLÄTTER DER BINDEKUNST.   1. Folge.     &nbspErfurt: (the author),   1906.          An exuberant catalogue of flower arrangements and bouquets ranging from those for funeral design and table decoration to stage decoration and sporting design. Most of the wreath designs are illustrated from colored photographs. They are highly elaborate with a great deal of fernery, lilies and symbolic shapes made from massed small flowers. The floral baskets are equally elaborate with large wicker containers and displays of orchids and moss or a profusion of large fruits. Fantasies and decorated easels are a theme, most tending toward the rustic. Table decorations, some illustrated from color sketches, quickly give way to cotilion decorations, also illustrated from colored sketches, which are highly imaginative and include such things as a stand of bee skeps and a little train with flower-filled cabooses. The stage designs are probably intended for musical or public speaking performances. The group identified as sporting designs would have been seen at parades and festivals. These are colored photographs of floral decorated horse drawn carriages, colored sketches of bicyclists on botanically decorated bikes, including a group of three cyclists connected by an overarching floral bower. The final image shows a collage of decorated boats. There seems to have been no second volume published, although, curiously, this same title with the same number of plates was published in 1898 and 1902. Fifty plates, as called for, are present, but some are not numbered possibly suggesting that rather than publishing a volume 2, new plates were substituted. We find no listings in OCLC or COPAC.   Loose plates, with title (1) + 2- 50 plates printed on versos only with illustrations from color photographs and from colored engravings of drawings; illustrations are mostly one to a plate, but there are some plates with multiple images.            Loose sheets, as issued, title sheet printed with decorative floral design and title; thin chip at lower left corner, not affecting printing, a small bit of ruffling at top edge of title, but still very well preserved. $500.00

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