Feiling Translators (3 results)
Published by Whittaker and Co; Dulau & Co. And D. Nutt, London, 1845
- Hardcover
Seller: Excalibur Books, Penzance, United KingdomExcalibur Books
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 110.37
US$ 28.13 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. Title Pages Dated 1845. Complete Set in 2 Volumes. Contemporary Brown Full-Leather Bindings with 5 Raised Bands to spines. Gilt Titles on Red grounds in 2nd compartments, Part Nos. in 4th and Gilt Linear decoration to bands. Front and rear have indented Cross-Hatched decoration…surrounded by a narrow linear border. Marbled Endpapers with Antique Bookplates "Captain Frederick Rogers R. N." ( of West Cornwall). Vol I, English and German, 740 Pages; Vol. II, German and English, 77 Pages. Clear Text arranged in Double Columns. Subject Words in large Capital Letters, for ease of Reference. 9 1/2" Tall. Slight wear to leather (see photos). Hinges sound & Bindings firm. Pages slightly age darkened bu in very good, clean condition. Set weighs 2.6 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like more Pictures, Information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1844
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerAssociation member: ILAB
Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-xiv [1] 2-446 + 24-page publisher's catalogue dated "November, 1844" at rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. An early anthology of German Romantic tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Lud…wig Tieck, Wilhelm Hauf, among others. Many are fantastic, including such classics as Hauff's "The Cold Heart," Hoffmann's "The Sandman" and Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas." Also includes Hoffman's "Elementary Spirit," the only translation to date of this long tale of an alchemist's invocation of a fire-elemental. Also "Libussa" by J. C. A. Musaeus. Translations are cited by Morgan (A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation C441) as above-average and appear here for the first time in English. "Good material." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1272. One of the handful of key English-language anthologies in the early nineteenth century that propagated German Romanticism throughout the English-speaking world. This was the tenth book in Chapman and Hall's "Foreign Library" series. Bleiler (1978), p. 153. Reginald 05356. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 177. Some wear to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, text block clean, a very good copy. An attractive copy. (#157577).
More imagesPublished by Chapman & Hall, 186 Strand C. Whiting House, London, 1844
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.Rare Book Cellar
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in rebound boards. A Few owner stamps some inked out, sticker removal to rear paste down. Extremely rare; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
