NIBELUNGENLIED. The Nibelungenlied. The Fall of the Nibelungers, otherwise the Book of Kriemhild. Translated by William Nanson Lettsom. Second edition. Williams & Norgate. 1874
Half title. Orig. green dec. cloth, spine lettered in gilt; sl. splitting to inner hinges. A good-plus copy.
¶A popular German tragedy in verse, probably dating from the beginning of the 13th century. First English edition, 1848 (earliest translation in BL, by J. Birch). First edition of this translation, 1850.
Stock #39546
£35
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