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Cover of Fridolin, or the road to the iron-foundery; a ballad, by F. Schiller. With a translation by J. P. Collier, Esq. Author of The Poetical Decamerone. Illustrated with eight engravings in outline by Henry Moses, from the designs of Retsch

Fridolin, or the road to the iron-foundery; a ballad, by F. Schiller. With a translation by J. P. Collier, Esq. Author of The Poetical Decamerone. Illustrated with eight engravings in outline by Henry Moses, from the designs of Retsch

by Friedrich Schiller, Moritz (ill.) Retzsch, Henry (engr.) Moses, John Payne Collier

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">4to. pp. 43, 8 plates. There are four copies in this collection; the present first is in half calf; large paper copy; plates on india paper, mounted. Both in English and in German (“Fridolin, oder, der Gang nach dem Eisenhammer”). Illustrations by Moritz Retzsch originally published to accompany German edition of 1824. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A5.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;lin

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