SONGS AND SAYINGS OF WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE, MINNESAENGER

Betts, Frank (translator)

Verlag: Blackwell, Oxford, 1918

Beschreibung

12mo. Original publisher's cream cloth-backed blue decorative patterned boards, white paper label with titles to front cover and spine. 54 pages. Edited by Reginald Hewitt. Limited to 500 copies. Spine lightly rubbed and soiled, else a near fine copy. Announcement slip for the Sheldonian Series etc. in matching type and format loosely inserted.Title in red and black with dedication verso, leaf with contents and Betts' translation of 29 'Songs and 'Sayings' with titles and four-line decorative initials in red throughout, text ornaments in black or red, final leaf with colophon at conclusion of the text and translators credit verso. The first of the self-consciously mediaevalist Sheldonian Series. The 'Sheldonian Series' published by B. H. Blackwell was of a number of 'Reprints and Renderings of Masterpieces in all Languages'. The present volume was printed 'in Oxford at The Vincent Works (Compositor, W. Alcock : Pressman, W. Cox), and finished in the December of the Fourth year of the War [sic], i.e. 1918. The book was - perhaps - intended for an American audience and was sold in New York by Longmans Green & Company. Original publisher's cream cloth-backed blue decorative patterned boards, white paper label with titles to front cover and spine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 140274

Bibliografische Details

Titel: SONGS AND SAYINGS OF WALTHER VON DER ...

Verlag: Blackwell, Oxford

Erscheinungsdatum: 1918

Einband: Hardcover