[Rarebooks] FS: 1872 Carbon Print Illustrated EKKEHARD -Germanic Romance

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“EKKEHARD. A Tale of the Tenth Century”

By Joseph Victor von Scheffel.
Published in Leipzig by Bernhard Tauschnitz in 1872.

DISCUSSION: Translated from the German by Sofie Delffs. This interesting 
set has been extra-illustrated with prints of paintings showing scenes 
from the chronicle (or closely-related subjects), which are stamped with 
the stamp of the German art publisher Friedrich Bruckmanns Verlag. The 
prints appear to be either carbon prints or Woodburytypes, both popular 
methods of reproducing fine quality art prints during that period, and 
virtually indistinguishable if the "Woodburytype" label is not stamped 
on the print.

A very popular chronicle of life in early Medieval Germany, based on the 
writings of Ekkehard IV, a 10th/11th century monk at the Abbey of Saint 
Gall. Ekkehard (one of several monks at the abbey with that name) was a 
polymath scholar of the Latin and Greek classics, mathematics, 
astronomy, and music. His famous chronicle, 'Casus sancti Galli' had 
been started by a monk named Ratpert, and, although strictly speaking 
was a description of daily life at the monastery, is really "a valuable 
source of contemporary history, especially of its culture", because the 
monks were out and about a lot.

Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826-1886) was a German poet and novelist 
whose studies for the legal career his parents wished upon him were 
derailed by failing eyesight. Instead he became an adapter of ancient 
and medieval Germanic legends and lore into popular poems and novels. In 
his introduction to this, one of his most popular works, and just about 
the only of his writings to be translated into English, he bemoans the 
fact that the recent (19th century) boom in scholarship of medieval life 
has not been translated to a popular audience, but has rather remained 
an academic, stuffed-shirt pursuit. That was exactly what he had set out 
to remedy, as he does here with his adaptation of Ekkehard IV's 
Chronicle into a romantic tale capable of swooning Victorian Teutonic 
hearts.

DESCRIPTION: 2 volumes. 4.75"x6.5", 299 + 301 pages. Bound in period 
quarter leather with marbled boards. Extra-illustrated with 14 carbon 
prints or Woodburytypes of artwork showing paintings of scenes related 
to the text, each stamped "Friedr Bruckmanns Verlag - Munchen u. Berlin" 
on the lower part of the image.

CONDITION NOTES: Slight cover scuffing, a scattered internal soil and 
light foxing.

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