Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Carove; Sarah Austin [trans.]
Title: The Story without an End
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879 . Cloth. An exceptionally bright copy of Sarah Austin's translation of this charming children's tale, with colour plated from E.V.B. In the exceptionally lovely publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and fifteen further bright chromolithograph plates. The tissue guards have been removed. Collated, complete.These illustrations are the work of Victorian era artist Eleanor Vere Boyle, one of the most important female illustrators in the 1860s, whose work was praised by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as 'great in design&apos.Endpapers renewed. Retaining the original half title.A lovely translation of the classic German tale by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové, about a young prince and his adventures in a magical kingdom. Translated into English by Sarah Austin. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Endpapers renewed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Tissue guards removed. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle]. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Friedrich Wilhelm Carové Eleanor Vere Boyle fairy tale Eleanor Vere Boyle E.V.B. [Eleanor Vere Boyle]


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