Description: Hardcover. 4to. William Heinemann, London/Doubleday Page & Co, New York. 1925. viii, 136 pgs., illustrated with a total of 15 color-printed, tipped-in plates, mounted on tan paper sheets, each with a title-printed tissue guard, and approximately 40 drawings & designs by Arthur Rackham, many used as openings, head or tail-pieces. Decorated endpaper. First Edition/Fifth Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth with titling and Rackham fish designs on the spine in dark blue, and titling and Rackham design on the front cover. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Endpapers with Rackham designs printed in green have light offsetting present. Previous owner's name present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This classic story comes from the French folk-tale Melusine and has gone on to inspire many works including plays, operas, and other stories as well. In it, Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight in order to gain a soul. Similar to the tale of the Little Mermaid, Undine explores the romance, mystery, and majesty of love. Arthur Rackham De La Motte Fouque 1925 Undine French Folk Tale Hardcover w/DJ Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is Undine by De La Motte Fouque Adapted From the German by W. L. Courtney And Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Hardcover. 4to. William Heinemann, London/Doubleday Page & Co, New York. 1925. viii, 136 pgs., illustrated with a total of 15 color-printed, tipped-in plates, mounted on tan paper sheets, each with a title-printed tissue guard, and approximately 40 drawings & designs by Arthur Rackham, many used as openings, head or tail-pieces. Decorated endpaper. First Edition/Fifth Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in blue cloth with titling and Rackham fish designs on the spine in dark blue, and titling and Rackham design on the front cover. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Endpapers with Rackham designs printed in green have light offsetting present. Previous owner's name present to the endpapers. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This classic story comes from the French folk-tale Melusine and has gone on to inspire many works including plays, operas, and other stories as well. In it, Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight in order to gain a soul. Similar to the tale of the Little Mermaid, Undine explores the romance, mystery, and majesty of love. From Wikipedia; Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (12 February 1777 – 23 January 1843) was a German writer of the romantic style. Undine is a fairy-tale novella (Erzählung) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. During the nineteenth century the book was very popular and was, according to The Times in 1843, "a book which, of all others, if you ask for it at a foreign library, you are sure to find engaged". The story is descended from Melusine, the French folk-tale of a water-sprite who marries a knight on condition that he shall never see her on Saturdays, when she resumes her mermaid shape. It was also inspired by works by the occultist Paracelsus. An unabridged English translation of the story by William Leonard Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham was published in 1909. George Macdonald thought Undine "the most beautiful" of all fairy stories, and the references to it in such works as Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy Chain and Louisa Alcott's Little Women show that it was one of the best loved of all books for many 19th-century children. The first adaptation of Undine was E.T.A. Hoffmann's opera in 1814. It was a collaboration between E.T.A. Hoffman, who composed the score, and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué who adapted his own work into a libretto. The opera proved highly successful, and Carl Maria von Weber admired it in his review as the kind of composition which the German desires: 'an art work complete in itself, in which partial contributions of the related and collaborating arts blend together, disappear, and, in disappearing, somehow form a new world'. In the 1830s, the novella was translated into Russian dactylic hexameter verse by the Romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky. This verse translation became a classic in its own right and later provided the basis for the libretto to Tchaikovsky's operatic adaptation. The novella has since inspired numerous similar adaptions in various genres and traditions. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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Price: 425 USD
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
End Time: 2024-09-05T02:02:33.000Z
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Author: F. De La Motte Fouque; Edmund Gosse
Binding: Hardcover
Character Family: Undine
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Illustrator: Arthur Rackham
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: London
Publisher: William Heinemann
Region: Europe
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Fairy Tales & Fantasy, Story of Undine, Water Sprites, Marry and Gain a Soul, Supernatural Fiction
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Topic: Fairy Tales & Fantasy
Year Printed: 1925