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NY: William Godwin Hard cover. Published NY: William Godwin, no date. 8vo., unpaginated, illustrated by Willy Pogany with b/w plates, drawings within the text, borders, page headers and a few monochromes. Black cloth with beveled boards, silver titles and cover design. Spine cloth chipped - binding sound, bookplate and previous owner name on pastedown. Fair to good. . Hard. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Pogany, Willy. 8vo.

New York: Brentano's. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Lacks the elusive dust jacket. Rubbing to edges, corners, hinges, and spine ends. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown. The front endpaper has a small abrasion, possibly from sticker removal. Pastedowns and endpapers lightly toned.; Tannhäuser, the full title being Tannhäuser and the Minnesängers' Contest at Wartburg, is Richard Wagner's epic, poetic, opera of the opposition of sacred, otherworldly love and profane, worldly love. The mythical character Tannhäuser is a medieval German poet and songwriter who abandons his chaste Elizabeth and descends to be with Venus in her ethereal, subterranean realm of Venusberg. Dissatisfied, he ascends to the real-worldly Wartburg. reunites with Elisabeth, enters the songwriting contest of the Minnesängers, and horrifies the staid, pious listeners with his song of earthly, sensual love. In disgrace, he repairs to Rome to do… Read More

George G. Harrap & Co. LTD, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1911. First edition. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, very good with light rubbing to edges, slight bow to front board. Binding sound. Early bookplate to front paste down. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

1911. London, Harrap, 1911. 29 : 20,5 cm. Each page richly illustrated in red, green and black, many of them full-page, 16 tipped-in coloured plates by Willy Pogany. Original gilt decorated grey cloth. Profusely and delicate ilustrated throughout the whole book. - Binding a bit stained.