first edition
1888 · Cleveland
by [FOREIGN LANGUAGE IMPRINTS]
Cleveland: Lauer & Mattill, 1888. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue-green decorative cloth stamped in black; [4],492pp.; frontispiece, pictorial ads bound in at front and end of textblock. Boards rather rubbed and worn, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paperstock, childish pencil scribbles to preliminaries, frontispiece starting to separate. Overall an About Very Good only copy. Text entirely in German blackletter. (Inventory #: 37326)