Buy this book on-line von SCHMID,JOHANN CHRISTOPHER**: : THE BASKET OF FLOWERS;OR,PIETY AND TRUTH TRIUMPHANT.**LONDON/NY.FREDERICK WARNE & CO.,ND.
UK,12mo,HB,1st edn thus,(nd.but c1880's).VG+.Green cloth, black ink and gilt blocked and stamped decorated bds and spine/backstrip.Rear bd only black ink blocked and stamped design with a few spots to top corner.Corners very lightly bumped with some miniscule rubbing.Head+foot of spine/
backstrip lightly bumped and creased,as usual/
normal.All edges gilt.Publisher's white+grey colophon decorated eps with feps amateurishly repaired or strengthened by an approx 2" brown paper strip pasted over front hinge - presumably the hinge is cracked? An easy restoration to correct.Rear free ep slightly foxed with bookseller's small ink name+address to same.7 chromolithographic style illus/plates with tissue guard removed from the frntis illus.Contents solid,
apart from front hinge,tight and generally clean with minimal foxing or spotting.12mo,xi+1-203pp includes preface,b/w line decorated chapter head-pieces with floral b/w line chapter tail-pieces and
4pp publisher's adverts to rear.From the publisher's preface: "So far as we can ascertain, there is yet no English translation of the German original, without alterations and additions by French, American, and English writers.The following
volume is translated from the German story almost literally,except that here and there a few verses from the best English poets are given at the close of the chapters,where they are peculiarly suitable to the subject,and a few striking emblems and verses from natural objects,or from Scripture, have been added where it seemed necessary to do so.But,on the whole,this edition will be found a much more faithfull translation of the original book than any other yet published."
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