Details

Subject(s)

• Fairy tales [Browse]

Compiler

Lyser, J. P. (Johann Peter), 1803-1870 [Browse]

Publisher

Goedsche, Friedrich Wilhelm [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Booksellers' labels [Browse]

Notes

• For continuation, see Lyser's "Einhundert und eine nacht."
• Lyser was the pseudonym of Johann Peter Theodor Burmeister.
• Illustrated by Lyser.
• Each volume consists of 2 parts, which in turn each have a frontispiece and an extra-engraved t.p.
• Princeton copy 1: Lacking extra-engraved t.p. for IX.2, X.1, X.2, XI.2, XII.2, XIII.2, XIV.2, and XV.2.
• Princeton copy 2: All with water and bookworm damage. Part IV.2 lacking p. 240-end. Part XV.2 lacking p. 209-end.
• Princeton copy 2: With oval bookseller's stamp "Garrigue & Christern / 2 Barclay St. New York / Foreign Booksellers" on front wrappers.

Binding note

• Princeton copy 1: Bound in 7 v. with uniform one quarter green cloth gilt, black speckled bds., and all edges speckled green. The seven sets of publisher's wrappers preserved in the Cotsen copy are bound in at the front and rear of each volume, no longer binding individual issues.
• Princeton copy 2: Part IV.2 with illustrated front wrapper; Part V.1 and VI.2 with illustrated full wrappers; Part XV.1 & 2 no wrapper.

Source acquisition

Princeton copy 2: Purchase; Rebecca Esmi; 2006.

Other title(s)

• Abendländische tausend und eine Nacht
• Schönsten Mährchen und Sagen aller europäischen Völker

OCLC

6614897

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