first edition Hardcover
1849 · Stuttgart
by Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Stuttgart: J. W. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1849. First edition. Hardcover. fair. 12mo. x, 185pp. Original half cloth with gold lettering on spine over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Collection of poems by German poet, translator and liberal agitator, Ferdinand Freiligrath. Includes translations by Freiligrath of poems by Alphonse de Lamartine, Henry W. Longfellow, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hood, Allan Cunningham, as well as Scottish ballads and songs, an Irish folk song and a Northamerican song. Freiligrath was a close friend of Longfellow. Text in German, gothic script. Sunning and some age wear on binding. "B 330" in red crayon on free front endpaper. Sporadic foxing throughout. Top area of leaves near gutter water stained. Under- and sidelining in pencil to some leaves. Fair to good condition.
(Inventory #: 30689)