Title: Walladmor. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott. Von W....s. Erster Band
Description: <p></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;">First of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. xviii, f. [1], pp. 328, [4]. Contemporary wrappers.</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;">An imitation of Scott by one of his German translators, passed off as a ‘free’ translation by ‘Willibald Alexis’. See J. A. Farrer, Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 268–69; W. B. Todd &amp; A. Bowden, Sir Walter Scott: A Bibliographical History, 1796–1832. New Castle, Del., 1998, 496S and 546T for the frequently-reprinted (satirical) English retranslation by Thomas De Quincey, with a tongue-in-cheek preface intimating the fraud.</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;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103022" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>