LEGENDS FROM RIVER & MOUNTAIN by Carmen Sylva (H. M. the Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell. With Illustrations by T. H. Robinson. London: George Allen, 1896. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] ix-xi [xii] [1-2] 3-328, Illustrations by T. H. Robinson, publisher's pictorial light blue cloth stamped in black and gold, top edge gilt, bottom edge untrimmed, decorated endpapers. First edition. A collection of nineteen legends, including ten tales by Elisabeth of Wied (Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise, 1843-1916), the first Queen of Romania, translated into English by Alma Gertrude Vansittart Harrison (née Strettell, 1853–1939), a British translator and poet known for her translations of poems, folk songs and folktales from Greek, German and other languages, whom critics praised for her "genius for felicitous paraphrases" from foreign languages and her ability to make her translations sound as if they were originally written in English. Following the ten stories by the Queen of Romania are nine tales "collected from different parts of Germany" translated and adapted by Strettell, most of which being "somewhat amplified and developed" or "worked into one tale" if they were legends belonging to different districts but the incidents had a common source. Touch of rubbing to spine ends and corner tips, a clean, tight, very good copy. A well above average copy of a lovely book. (#177122).
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