The Story Without End Carove in English 1874

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Author: Carové, Friedriech Wilhelm
Title: The Story Without An End: From the German of Carové. With Illustrations printed in Colours after Drawings by E.V.B.
Place Published: London
Publisher:Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston
Date Published: 1874
Description: 40 pp. Translated by Sarah Austin. Illustrated 15 chromolithographed plates by Eleanor Vere Boyle. (4to) blue cloth stamped in black and gilt, all edges gilt.Sarah Austin's English translation of Carové's children's story "Das Märchen ohne Ende" was first published in 1834. The chromolithographs produced here by the Leighton Brothers after the drawings of E.V. Boyle are exquisite; rich, colorful, elaborate, yet still delicate and sharp.
Condition Report: Spine faded, light rubbing to cloth, light toning and plates offsetting, foxing to several outer leaves; very good.