Sintram and his companions
Subtitle: from the German of de La Motte Fouqué.
Contributors: Selous, Henry Courtney, 1803-1890.; Gray, Charles, engraver, d. 1847; Bastin, J. fl. 1840s.; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872.; Richards, Thomas, printer
Publisher: Edward Lumley
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Other titles: Sintram and his companions :; Sintram :
Notes: Date based on prize label inscription in Massey Library copy.

Added wood-engraved illustrated t.p., wood-engraved plates and one illustration within the text are with signatures: "H. C Selous Del." and "C. Gray. Sc.".

T.p. printed within rusticated rule border.

"The Frontispiece is a copy of the engraving by Albert Dürer, which gave rise to the Romance of Sintram and his Companions, and in this point of view it will not be deemed out of place in the present illustrated edition."--To the Reader.

Includes elaborate wood-engraved illustrated initial engraved by C. Gray after H. C. Selous.

Plates are printed with elaborate decorative borders.

A few wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed "J. Bastin" and one is signed "Green".

Preliminary plate is with the same central image as that used in an edition of this title published in 1841 by James Burns.  See McLean D 0643.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-24 at end with imprint: "T. Richards, Printer, 37 Gt. Queen Street.".

MASS copy: Bound in blue morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold; a.e.g.  With pastel yellow painted endpapers.  With prize label: "Scottish Institution for the Education of Young Ladies  9, Moray Place, Edinburgh.  Founded 1834   Third Prize for excelling in the Junior German Class, First Division  Awarded by the Directors to Miss Janet Pagan. C. E. [Ann?], Master, July, 1856".