Undine

viii, 136 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with dark blue illustration & lettering to front board & spine. Some damage to head of spine, minor foxing to spine and rubbing to extremities. Some foxing to endpapers but otherwise clean internally. Illustrated endpapers, b/w decorative details and fifteen tipped-in colour colour plates by Arthur Rackham. A lovely illustrated volume of a popular early German fairytale, first published in 1811, about the water spirit,Undine, who marries the knight Huldbrand, in order to gain a soul. It was influential to Hans Christian Andersen in his writing of 'The Little Mermaid'. Unabridged translation from the German by William Leonard Courtney.

Product Info

Publisher: William Heinemann 1919

Year: 1925

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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