Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Carove; Sarah Austin
Title: The Story without an End
Description: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. Cloth. Eleanor Vere Boyle's colourfully illustrated English translation of Carove's classic German fairy tale, signed by Boyle. Signed by the illustrator, Eleanor Vere Boyle, to the recto of the front endpaper: "For my dear Lady Leighton, from E.V.B. July 1906".A classic German children's story by Friedrich Wilhelm Carove, a charming and moral fairy tale. The whimsical story follows a young prince who adventures into a magical kingdom.Translated here into English by Sarah Austin, a very popular translation, being frequently reprinted. Austin's translation of German works did much to make Germany more familiar to the English.Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, fifteen colour plates, and in-text monochrome illustrations, by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Collated, complete.Two additional colour plates are loosely inserted. In the original publisher"s cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A few light marks to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Eleanor Vere Boyle. Very Good Indeed .

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