MUSÆUS, Johann Karl August. Libussa, Duchess of Bohemia; and The Man with a Name. Translated from the German by J.T. Hanstein. Macdonald & Co. 1863
Orig. red-pink moiré cloth, boards blocked in blind, plain spine. a.e.g. v.g.
¶Libussa, appeared in volume 3 of Volksmärchen der Deutschen, published 1782-86. Not in BL, where the earliest edition of this translation is 1866. A translation by Oxenford and Feiling appeared in 1844. Carlyle also translated Musæus in 1827 in German Romance.
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