Ludwig Bechstein's Marchenbuch
Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Wigand, 1853. Very Good. Item #27308
Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Wigand, 1853. Twelfth Edition. Octavo; contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xvi,280pp.; illus. throughout. Leather rather dried and rubbed at extremities, some foxing to textblock, modern ownership signature to front flyleaf, else Very Good overall.
Lovely copy of this early edition of Ludwig Bechstein's fairy tales, at the time more popular even than those of the Brothers Grimm.
Price: $75.00
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