Shoberl frederic translator (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 2nd Edition. Stated 2nd edition. Printed at the Albion Press. lii, 132pp, with tissued-guarded, engraved frontispiece, extra illustrated title page, and three further engravings. Full calf's leather binding with red leather onlay labels front and rear, red leather title label on spine, gilt lettering (front and rear labels emblazoned "reward of merit". 12mo. Leather is worn and scuffed, rounded on corners and heavily rubbed around spine. Text block edges dull. Front hinge partially cracked. Some occasional spotting on first and last few leaves. The tissue-guards are edge damaged and toned, one tissue-guard lacking. An illustrated edition of this retelling of the biblical story of Cain & Abel by Simon Gessner, translated from the original German into English by Frederic Shoberl. This edition includes a substantial memoir of Gessner (1730-1788). Gessner was a Swiss writer and artist, well known in his lifetime for literary works on pastoral themes. The Death of Abel was first published, in the original German under the title Der Tod Abels in 1758, ran through many editions and was translated into many languages in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including Welsh, Latin and Hebrew.…

3pp., 16mo. Bifolium. On aged and foxed paper. He wishes to be informed 'whether the Forget Me Not" so long and ably edited by your Father will be published for the ensuing year - i.e. for 1848'. One of his daughters has 'written down Stories one or two of which have already appeared, and she would be very happy to avail herself of an opportunity of writing something' for the annual, so he asks him to 'ascertain whether your Father would like to insert a short Nouvellette [sic] to the extent of 4 to 5 pages'. The subject is presumably Roscoe's daughter Jane Elizabeth St John (1829-1906) was generally known as Mrs. Horace Roscoe St John, author of 'Audubon the Naturalist' (1856), 'Englishwomen and the Age' (1860), a pamphlet on the condition of women, and two historical works, 'Masaniello of Naples' (1865) and 'The Court of Anna Carafa' (1872).…