(#157577) TALES FROM THE GERMAN, COMPRISING SPECIMENS FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS. John Oxenford, C. A. Feiling.

TALES FROM THE GERMAN, COMPRISING SPECIMENS FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1844. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-xiv [1] 2-446 + 24-page publisher's catalogue dated "November, 1844" at rear, original decorated brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, yellow coated endpapers. First edition. An early anthology of German Romantic tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Ludwig Tieck, Wilhelm Hauf, among others. Many are fantastic, including such classics as Hauff's "The Cold Heart," Hoffmann's "The Sandman" and Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas." Also includes Hoffman's "Elementary Spirit," the only translation to date of this long tale of an alchemist's invocation of a fire-elemental. Also "Libussa" by J. C. A. Musaeus. Translations are cited by Morgan (A Critical Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation C441) as above-average and appear here for the first time in English. "Good material." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1272. One of the handful of key English-language anthologies in the early nineteenth century that propagated German Romanticism throughout the English-speaking world. This was the tenth book in Chapman and Hall's "Foreign Library" series. Bleiler (1978), p. 153. Reginald 05356. Block, The English Novel 1740-1850, p. 177. Some wear to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, text block clean, a very good copy. An attractive copy. (#157577).

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