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The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceipts of Master Tyll Owlglass.

(EULENSPIEGEL, Tyll) The Marvellous Adventures and Rare Conceipts of Master Tyll Owlglass. Newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our English tongue, by Kenneth R.H. Mackenzie, fellow of the society of antiquities. And adorned with many most diverting and cunning devices, by Alfred Crowquill. Trübner & Co. 1860
Half title, front., illus. & several colour plates. Orig. blue morocco-grained cloth, bevelled boards, pictorially blocked & lettered in gilt; spine & corners a little rubbed, front board creased, inner hinges cracking. a.e.g. A good sound copy. This is the first extended English translation, with numerous notes and biographical references.

¶Free translations from the High German of Tyll Eugenspeigel. He is thought to have been born around 1300 in Kneitlingen near Brunswick. An itinerant clown-like storyteller, he travelled throughout Northern Germany and the Low Countries, regaling crowds with his humorous fables and moral tales. He became known throughout Europe, and is mentioned in the works of Ben Jonson and William Copland, where he was named Owlglass.
Stock #71828
£50


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