Author: La Motte Fouque; A. C. Farquharson [translator]
Title: Sintram and His Companions
Description: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1908. Cloth. An illustrated translation of this intriguing tale from German Romantic writer, La Motte Fouque. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty plates. Collated complete. When distant French relations come to Norway as guests of his father, Sintram's life is complicated by his wish to become a knight as chivalrous as Folko and his infatuation with the beautiful Gabrielle. Written by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué, a German writer of the Romantic style. Translated by A. C. Farquharson, a Scottish writer and translator. Frontispiece by Albrecht Dürer, a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Plates by Edmund Joseph Sullivan, a British book illustrator known for merging the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau. In the original full green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Albrecht Durer; Edmund J. Sullivan. Good .

Keywords: Sintram Companions La Motte Fouque Durer Companions Farquharson Albrecht Durer; Edmund J. Sullivan


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