Undine: adapted from the German by W.[illiam] L.[eonard] Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
de [RACKHAM]. FOUQUE, [Friedrick] de la Motte
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London & New York: William Heinemann, & Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. 4to. 136 pp. Illustrated title in green & black, tipped-in colour frontisp., 14 tipped-in colour plates. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over illustrated green speckled boards, cover art on covers & spine by Rackham, illustrated endpapers by Rackham (edgewear, rubbing, minor wear & bumping to corners, minor scuffing to spine), still a VG- copy, from the library of Anne “Nita” Wilson Patton (1887-1971), sister to General George S. Patton (1885-1945). First trade edition of this tragic German tale of changelings, water-sprites, and fated love inspired by the occult works of Paracelsus, detailing how the mermaid water-sprite could gain a human soul by marrying a mortal. Motte Fouque’s story reportedly inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Mermaid.”
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- Título
- Undine: adapted from the German by W.[illiam] L.[eonard] Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
- Autor
- [RACKHAM]. FOUQUE, [Friedrick] de la Motte
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- William Heinemann, & Doubleday, Page & Co.,
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- London & New York:
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- 1909.
- Palabras clave
- German Literature, Fairy tales, Folklore, Folk tales, Germany, German, French, Friedrich de la Motte Foque, Mermaids, Illustrated Books, Arthur Rackham
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