Accession number
PML 142365
Creator
Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781-1838.
Published
London : G. and W.B. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, 1824.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Original German was edited by La Motte Fouqué.
Translated by Sir John Bowring.
"London: Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street."--Colophon.
This edition is known to exist in three states. State 1 has the date 1823 on the t.p.; state 2 has date changed to 1824 and publisher's address on t.p. is hyphenated: Ave-Maria Lane; state 3 has t.p. dated 1824 and the address has no hyphen. Cruikshank's name is misspelled "Cruickshank" and p. [ix], lines 4-5 has misspelling "aukwardness" for "awkwardness" in all three states, but both were corrected for the 2nd edition, published later in 1824. Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné, 475.
Translated by Sir John Bowring.
"London: Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street."--Colophon.
This edition is known to exist in three states. State 1 has the date 1823 on the t.p.; state 2 has date changed to 1824 and publisher's address on t.p. is hyphenated: Ave-Maria Lane; state 3 has t.p. dated 1824 and the address has no hyphen. Cruikshank's name is misspelled "Cruickshank" and p. [ix], lines 4-5 has misspelling "aukwardness" for "awkwardness" in all three states, but both were corrected for the 2nd edition, published later in 1824. Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné, 475.
Description
xii, 165 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 18 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 green calf.
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