By Rudolf Erich Raspe
London   William Tegg
8" by 5" xii, [11], 2-268pp
A very bright, beautifully illustrated edition of Rudolf Erich Raspe's classic novel regarding the fictional German nobleman, Baron Munchausen.
By Rudolf Erich Raspe

1877 The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

London   William Tegg
8" by 5" xii, [11], 2-268pp
A very bright, beautifully illustrated edition of Rudolf Erich Raspe's classic novel regarding the fictional German nobleman, Baron Munchausen.
£590.00
: 0.75kgs / : 759L2

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Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

With a hand-coloured frontispiece and five woodcuts by George Cruikshank in addition to twenty three engravings.

Collated, complete.

Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman loosely based on Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Munchhausen. This collection of tall tales  follows the eighteenth century nobleman on his adventures overseas. It is known that the majority of the stories to this work are based on folktales that have been in circulation prior to the eighteenth century. 

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with occasional scattered spots to pages.

Very Good

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