tracy reverend thomas (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. This work was translated by Reverend Thomas Tracy, and is also inscribed by him: "Franc--Accept this token of my regard. Great Barrington, June 11, 1861." This volume has the publisher's brown embossed cloth binding with glazed brown endpapers, gilded title on cover. Spine ends frayed, spine is somewhat faded. Some stitching is visible, but binding sound. A few light pencil notations. Decorative red fore-edge, pages have very slight browning at edges. Undine, or the Water Spirit, was originally published in 1811 and is an early German romance in which a water-spirit marries a knight in order to gain a soul. Sintram and his companions is a romance inspired by Albrecht Dürer's famous engraving Knight, Death, and the Devil. It might be considered an early fantasy, exploring the conflict between Christian ascetic love and pagan passion. Hardcover, good condition, 238 pages, 12mo.

Zustand: Good. reprint. Disbound, 48pp, pages a little tanned & thumbed, in need of some TLC. Early reprint of Tracy's English translation of a novella, based on a tale from Paracelsus, by the German romantic writer Frederick De La Motte, Baron Fouque [ 1777 - 1843 ], in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. 100 grams.