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LENTNER, Josef Friedrich. Chronica von dem Geschloße und der Vesten ze Lebenberg. Geschrieben und ]mit Bildern gezieret. Durchgesehen von Fr. Defregger und I. V. Meran: Fridolin Plant, [n.d., ca. 1880]. Folio. Numerous hand-colored in-text illustrations, all edges deckle. In Merano, Josef Friedrich Lentner worked on his novellas, novels, and dramatic drafts, and also sat in quiet solitude at Lebenberg Castle, whose Bavarian parlor he decorated with fresco paintings, and there wrote this chronicle of this castle, which was published with all of the decoration of his wonderful water-color miniatures, carefully painted in the most exact reproduction style by means of color pewter printing. In addition to the thoroughly humorous chronicle of Lebenberg Castle, near Merano, the work contains a special chapter on the "Weinspiegel oder des Steh Weins Landbrauch". Josef Friedrich Lentner (1814-1852), painter, poet, and researcher of customs and dialect, came from the long-established Munich bookstore Lentner. An enthusiastic friend of the Bavarian mountains, but also of Tyrol and South Tyrol, he travelled through the whole of Old Bavaria for 6 years, so that he could say of himself: "I have studied the kitchen notes of the entire nation and could become a tailor and seamstress, wedding loader and gravedigger in all districts without sinning against rite and fashion". All text and illustrations are clean, bright, and fresh, pages are supple and complete, edges slightly browned.