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The Legend of The Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in The Land of Flanders & Elsewhere… With Twenty Woodcuts by Albert Denstanche

De Coster, Charles and Whitworth Geoffrey (Trans,) · London

Author
De Coster, Charles and Whitworth Geoffrey (Trans,)
Date
1918
Place
London
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Language
English
Binding
8vo.(6" x 8.5") Full white cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with some chipping. Covers soiled, starting to bubble , spine lightly sun-darkened. Light foxing to top of pages. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts tipped in with descriptive tissue guards.
Format
The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak (French: La Légende et les Aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs, "The Legend and the Heroic, Joyous and Glorious Adventures of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak in the land of Flanders and elsewhere") is an 1867 French-language novel by Belgian author Charles De Coster. Based on the Low German literary figure Till Eulenspiegel, Coster's novel recounts the allegorical adventures as those of a Flemish prankster, Thyl Ulenspiegel, directly before and during the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule in the Netherlands.
Category
Children’s & Illustrated
Record
S.I.7983

8vo.(6" x 8.5") 1918. London: Chatto & Windus. Full white cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with some chipping. Covers soiled, starting to bubble , spine lightly sun-darkened. Light foxing to top of pages. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts tipped in with descriptive tissue guards. The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak (French: La Légende et les Aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs, "The Legend and the Heroic, Joyous and Glorious Adventures of Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak in the land of Flanders and elsewhere") is an 1867 French-language novel by Belgian author Charles De Coster. Based on the Low German literary figure Till Eulenspiegel, Coster's novel recounts the allegorical adventures as those of a Flemish prankster, Thyl Ulenspiegel, directly before and during the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule in the Netherlands.

Condition

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