Adapted from a Medieval version, his "Reinecke Fuchs" was an epic in hexameters first printed in 1794 that did not appear in English until 1855. He was responsible for bringing essentially new literary types represented by such words as "Sturm and Drang" and "Bildungsroman" onto the landscape of criticism. Germany's greatest modern literary figure and one of the major figures in the Romantic movement, Goethe (1749-1832) had an influence that extended far beyond his native land. This is a charming edition of Goethe's retelling of the adventures of Reynard the Fox, pleasingly bound and with two full sets of exemplary illustrations designed by two different German artists. Spine uniformly sunned to light tan (as almost always with green morocco), a touch of rubbing to extremities, covers with faint traces of leather preservative, one plate and half a dozen leaves with mild foxing, other trivial imperfections, but an extremely attractive copy-clean and fresh internally, the plates bright, and the binding shining with gilt. Extra engraved title page with pictorial frame, illustrations in the text based on the designs of Wilhelm von Kaulbach, and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 37 ENGRAVINGS by Heinrich Leutemann from the 1855 edition published by A. ELEGANT DARK GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY TOUT (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with large, eight-lobed central panel framed by gilt rules and decorative scalloping, wonderfully complex cornerpieces with a profusion of flowers emanating from a basket, over which a small bird hovers, raised bands, spine intricately gilt in compartments with a mirrored design, gilt tiling, turn-ins framed in gilt, with floral designs at corners and on sides, deep burgundy endpapers with gilt floral pattern, all edges gilt. ![]() vi,, 226 pp.Translated by Thomas James Arnold.
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