... kleine Serbische Grammatik ... Nebst Bemerkungen über die neueste Auffassung langer Heldenlieder aus dem Munde des Serbischen Volks ....

Leipzig & Berlin: G Reimer, 1824. First Edition. Contemporary half leather and marbled paper over boards.. Very good; some occasional spotting.. 8vo, [8], lxxii, 104 pp. The introduction by Grimm comprises 54 pages.

Grimm's translation of Karadzic's Serbian grammar accompanied by his introduction falls in the middle of the ongoing publication of his multi-volume German grammar and language study. It must be viewed in this context as a related inquiry. Grimm's 54 page introduction is a historical study of Serbian and the role of Slavic languages, (truncated) myth, and culture in modern German language and its history. See the Scherer essay on Grimm in Sebeok, Portraits of Linguists ...., vol. 1; OCLC citing only Cornell and NYPL in America; see Shippey, "Grimm's Law", TLS, Nov. 7, 2003. A book of interest when reminded of the 'leitmotiv' of Jonathan Littel's novel, The Kindly Ones. (Inventory #: 19062)