Oberon, a poem. From the German of Wieland. In two volumes ... Third edition

by William Sotheby

$200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1826. Small 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. 4 , 203, 1 ; 6 , 229, 3 ; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, original printed labels on spine; corners rubbed and bumped, text clean; very good. Sotheby's skill in translation secured for him a wide literary reputation. In 1798, after rapidly acquiring a knowledge of German, he published Oberon: a Poem, a translation of Christoph Martin Wieland's Oberon, which

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