The jobsiad: a grotesco-comico-heroic poem from the German of Dr. Carl Arnold Kortum

by Charles T. Brooks

$65 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Philadelphia: Frederick Leypoldt; London: Trübner & Co., 1863. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xviii, 181; 16 woodcut illustrations in text, spine darkened, else very good in original maroon cloth. A rampant doggerel in peculiar metre which first appeared anonymously in 1784 and remains a prime example of droll German humor. Item #6579

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