Undine
Frontispiece, title page with vignettes; contents; list of illustrations; pp. (1)-136 including 14 additional color plates. Illustrated endpapers. Binding green speckled paper over boards, stamped with title and design in green, gold-tooled linen spine.
Artwork Details
- Title: Undine
- Illustrator: Arthur Rackham (British, London 1867–1939 Limpsfield, Surrey)
- Author: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué (German, Brandenburg 1777–1843 Berlin)
- Translator: Adapted from the German by William Leonard Courtney (British, Poona, India 1850–1928 London)
- Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd. (London)
- Printer: Ballantyne & Co. (Edinburgh and London)
- Published in: New York; London
- Date: 1909
- Medium: Illustrations: Hentschel Colourtype (photomechanical process)
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 1/2 x 15/16 in. (25.4 x 19.1 x 2.4 cm)
- Classification: Books
- Credit Line: Gift of Fairchild Bowler, 1965
- Object Number: 65.518.23
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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