An enormous volume comprising over 100 gravure photograph portraits with facsimile signatures of leading German opera singers, actors, directors, artists, and writers of the turn of the century, each with a biographical note of 1-3 pp. preceding, and each measuring 12 x 18 inches (29 x 46.5 cm). The full volume measuring 12.25 x 18.5 inches (31 x 47 cm) overall.  Interestingly, each copy of which we aware of this edition contains a unique selection of portraits, having (so we suppose) been custom selected from a catalogue or list by each customer who ordered the volume; those in this copy are listed in full below. Folio. Hardcover with decorative boards by Edward Liesen. Spine and edges lightly rubbed; structurally sound and overall in fine condition.

Portraits contained in the volume: dedicatee Graf Bolko von Hochberg; conductors Karl Muck and Felix Weingartner; director Georg Droescher; singers Ernst Kraus, Wilhelm Grüning, Rudolf Berger, and Emmy Destinn v. Kittl; director Max Grube; actors Georg Molenar, Adalbert Matkowsky, Max Pohl, Rudolf Christians, Arthur Kraussneck, and Franziska Ellmenreich; theatre manager Theodor Loewe; singers Adam Würthele, Otto Briesemeister, Otto Robert Dietrich Goritz, Wilehlm Dörwald, Hans Keller, Ludmilla Prochaska, Mary Weiner, Theodor Reichmann, Hermann Winkelmann (no biography), Leo Slezak, Arthur Preuss, Richard Mayr, Moritz Frauscher, Ludwig Mantler, Anna von Mildenburg, Lola Beeth, Lucy Weidt (no biography), Hermine Kittel (no biography), and Rosa Papier-Paumgartner (no biography); composer Richard Pahlen; actor and director Adolf Ritter von Sonnenthal; actor Alexander Girardi; actor and director Heinrich Eisenbach; director Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn; actor Rudolf Maximilian Schildkraut; theatre director Ernst Ritter von Possart; conductors Herman Zumpe, Franz Fischer, Hugo Röhr, and Bernhard Stavenhagen; singers Heinrich Rudolph Knote, Raoul Walter, Alfred Bauberger (no biography), Georg Sieglitz, Eugen Gura, Berta Morena, Else Breuer, Charlotte Huhn, Irma Koboth, Hermine Bosetti, Katharina Senger-Bettaque, and Gisela Staudigl; director Angelo Neumann; singer Desider Zàdor; composers Max Schillings and Engelberth Humperdinck; professor Ludwig Thuille; composer and conductor Siegfried Wagner; conductor Arthur Nikisch; organist Edmund Kretschmer; composer August Bungert; theatre managers Nicolaus Graf von Seebach and Ernst von Schuch (and his wife); singers Karl Scheidemantel, Ejnar Forchhammer, Therese Malten, and Irene Abendroth; actor Conrad Dreher, singer Mario Fumagalli (no biography); actors Teresina Gessner and Otto Sommerstorff; director Friedrich Haase; singers Max Giesswein, Alois Pennarini, and Willy Birrenkoven; director Ernst Freiherr von Wolzogen; singer and actor Ludwig Wüllner; singers Francisco d'Andrade and Emmy Raabe-Burg; director Ferdinand von Strantz; singers Alfred Oberländer and Augusta Götze; painters Andreas Achenbach, Franz von Defregger, Fritz August von Kaulbach, Franz von Lenbach, Eugen Spiro, Anton von Werner, and Franz Stuck, sculptors Reinhold Begas and Walter Schott; writers Carmen Sylva [Elisabeth of Wied], Felix Dahn, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Max Halbe, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Heyse, Adolph L'Arronge, Franz von Schönthan, Friedrich Spielhagen, Hermann Sudermann, Heinz Tovote, Ernst von Wildenbruch, and Oscar Blumenthal.