Wagner, Richard -Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Wagner, Richard -Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Percival and Titurel. Knightly poems. Translated and explained by K. Simrock
. Two vols.
Stuttgart and Tübingen, Cotta, 1842. 8°. 2] vol., 515 p.; [2] vol., 489 p., [2] vol. Linen bindings currently with gold back titles (back lightened, 1 joint chipped
).
Goedeke II, 94 - First edition of this translation. - Copy with a very special provenance: Stamped "Franz Brockhaus" on each of the flying fly-leaves, below it noted by contemporary (his?) hand: "From Richard Wagner's library. - When Wagner had to flee in 1849 because of his involvement in the revolution in Dresden, he left his library to the publisher Heinrich Brockhaus, his brother-in-law, as a pledge for a loan of 500 Talers with the request to keep it unchanged, because he wanted to redeem it later. In 1873 he left it to his brother-in-law for good, as compensation for the loan that was never repaid. After war losses, this stock was transferred to the West German publishing house of Brockhaus in Wiesbaden and formed the basis for the catalogue published by Curt von Westernhagen: Richard Wagner's Dresden Library 1842-1849. new documents on the history of his work, Wiesbaden 1966 - but apparently individual volumes from this library had already been passed on to other members of the Brockhaus family at an earlier date - according to the present edition. - A little bit stained in the margins.
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Wagner, Richard -Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Percival and Titurel. Knightly poems. Translated and explained by K. Simrock
. Two vols.
Stuttgart and Tübingen, Cotta, 1842. 8°. 2] vol., 515 p.; [2] vol., 489 p., [2] vol. Linen bindings currently with gold back titles (back lightened, 1 joint chipped
).
Goedeke II, 94 - First edition of this translation. - Copy with a very special provenance: Stamped "Franz Brockhaus" on each of the flying fly-leaves, below it noted by contemporary (his?) hand: "From Richard Wagner's library. - When Wagner had to flee in 1849 because of his involvement in the revolution in Dresden, he left his library to the publisher Heinrich Brockhaus, his brother-in-law, as a pledge for a loan of 500 Talers with the request to keep it unchanged, because he wanted to redeem it later. In 1873 he left it to his brother-in-law for good, as compensation for the loan that was never repaid. After war losses, this stock was transferred to the West German publishing house of Brockhaus in Wiesbaden and formed the basis for the catalogue published by Curt von Westernhagen: Richard Wagner's Dresden Library 1842-1849. new documents on the history of his work, Wiesbaden 1966 - but apparently individual volumes from this library had already been passed on to other members of the Brockhaus family at an earlier date - according to the present edition. - A little bit stained in the margins.
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