The Works of Frederick Schiller |Early Dramas and Romances

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Includes "THE ROBBERS, FIESCO, LOVE AND INTRIGUE, DEMETRIUS, THE GHOST-SEER, AND THE SPORT OF DESTINY". Presentation copy inscribed "Thomas Staples Esq. with the comp's of Henry G. Bohn". Original Pressed green cloth with gilt decorations. Boards stained, spine faded and frayed with 5cm split. 44 pages bound at rear "a select catalogue of new books at reduced prices". Main text 494 pages. 19 x 12.5cm. "Bohn, Henry George (1796?1884), translator and publisher" "was educated at George III's expense, his father being the court bookseller. When he left school he joined his father's second-hand bookselling business" "While working for his father, he began his career as a translator, largely of German authors, although he was also fluent in French. His translations of Schiller and Humboldt afterwards appeared in his Foreign Classics series". DNB. N° de ref. del artículo 000042

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