ON THE HEIGHTS (3 Volume set, complete) (Collection of German Authors. Vol. 1)

Second Authorized Edition, thoroughly revised. 3 volume set, complete. A Very Good - set. 12mo., [Vol.1] 302; [Vol.2] 322; [Vol.3] 448 pp. Bound in quarter red leather and marbled paper boards, with title and volume on the five compartment spines in gilt. All edges marbled. Yellow end papers. Moderate shelf wear, mostly at the tips, and spines' crowns. Spines darkened, with rubbing along the joints. Text pages age-toning, with occasional spots of browning/foxing. Hinges very strong. Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882) was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions. Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz, German publisher, paid the English authors for the works his company published, and agreed to limit their sales of English-language books to the European continent. In 1841, Tauchnitz started his English-language editions, with the series "Collection Of British Authors". Although Tauchnitz's editions were authorized, and listed as the 'Copyright Edition', they were not protected from copyright infringement and he could offer no such protection to the authors he paid.