Author: La Motte Fouque,Baron de
Title: UNDINE a legend ..translated by F.E.Bunnett [Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett illustrated by Julius Hoppner.
Description: London, Griffith,Farran.Okenden & Welsh & New York E.P.Dutton & Co [1885] chromolithograph plates [9] + 42 sepia head- & tail-pieces By Julius Hoppner + every text page within sylistic floral etc frames. . Elephant folio overall gilt tan pebbled cloth on bevelled boards with large central sunken panel with printed on silk [?] the picture of Undine walking on water guided by the old man. Spine dercoratively gilt titled lower cover blindtooled. [Edges and corners worn/ spine rebacked with old spine laid on/scratches to the silk picture/some uneven sunning] All Edges Gilt and with pale green and overall gilt endpapers. Frontispiece + titlepage in sepia and brown pictorial surround with gilt title & text within. Decorative Dedication leaf printed one side only, gilt & sepia decorated dedicatory text printed one side only + half title in floral surround [recto only]+ Chapters 1-19 are unpaginated and printed both sides of leaves making 49pp with verso of last blank. All text within decorated frames and with illustrations to beginning and end of each chapter. Insterspersed are the beautiful large chromoliths each with a captioned protective guard sheet.Some foxing,mainly to edgees of margins else a clean tight copy. Quite scarce this ENGLISH translation is only found at the British Library + at Oxford & Cambridge. [over weight will need extra postage] N.B. most of the German texts of this book are in 8vo size [30 x 23cm] this is 49.5 x 38.5cm.

Keywords: chomolithographs Rare English version German legend


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