UNDINE

de la Motte Fouque; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham; translated by W.L. Courtney

Published by William Heinemann / Doubleday Page & Co, London / New York, 1909

About this Item

1st edition thus, 1909. A Very Good book lacking dust jacket. 4to., 136 pp., bound in publishers brown cloth spine with green paper boards, title and decorations in gilt on spine. Spine is dulled, Tips, edges and top/base of spine rubbed through. Boards are faded and tanned at edges. End papers are foxed, text pages edge toned. Text appears unmarked. Undines are a category of elemental beings associated with water, stemming from the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph in its own right, and it continues to live in modern literature and art through such adaptations as Danish Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 "The Little Mermaid" and the 1811 novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.

Seller Inventory # 36417

Bibliographic Details

• Title: UNDINE
• Publisher: William Heinemann / Doubleday Page & Co, London / New York
• Publication Date: 1909
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
• Edition: First edition thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Fiction