Rappopor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Octavo. Boards. 248 pp.

Leather. Condition: Good. Forster Robson (illustrator). This book contains two works of fiction by A. von Chamisso and Wilhelm Hauff with an introduction Dr A. S. Rappoport. It includes many tipped in colour plates on brown paper with titled tissue guards and further plates and illustrations by Forster Robson Leather bound copy with gilt titles and detail to spine. Book is bound with the original green and gilt cloth cover and spine tipped in. Wilhelm Hauff (November 29, 1802 November 18, 1827) was a German poet and novelist. Considering his brief life, Hauff was an extraordinarily prolific writer. The freshness and originality of his talent, his inventiveness, and his genial humour have won him a high place among the southern German prose writers of the early nineteenth century. Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 August 21, 1838), was a German poet and botanist. As a poet Chamisso's reputation stands high, Frauenliebe und -leben (1830) (a cycle of lyrical poems which was set to music by Robert Schumann, by Carl Loewe, and by Franz Paul Lachner) being particularly famous. Also noteworthy are Schloss Boncourt and Salas y Gomez. In estimating his success as a writer, it should be remembered that he was cut off from his native language. He often deals with gloomy or repulsive subjects; and even in his lighter and gayer productions there is an undertone of sadness or of satire. In the lyrical expression of the domestic emotions he displays a fine felicity, and he knew how to treat with true feeling a tale of love or vengeance. Die Löwenbraut may be taken as a sample of his weird and powerful simplicity; and Vergeltung is remarkable for a pitiless precision of treatment. In a half calf binding with cloth covered boards. There is some mild wear tot he extremities including some bumping to the top and bottom of the spine. The front board is detached but present. The binding is tight and firm and the rear cover is firmly attached. Internally the book is generally clean and bright apart from some mild spotting in places. The pages are rough cut as called for. There is an ownership plate for a J. Grenville Hamilton to the front pastedown. Good. book.