Item #113 A Stroke Upon the Sea.; Selected and Translated by Jan Schreiber. Walther Von der VOGELWEIDE.
A Stroke Upon the Sea.; Selected and Translated by Jan Schreiber.

A Stroke Upon the Sea.; Selected and Translated by Jan Schreiber.

Toronto: The Aliquando Press, 1984. Octavo, 24 x 15.5 cm. Cased in quarter purple Momi paper, with maroon Momi paper covered boards, printed paper title label to the spine, linocut illustration printed in black to the upper cover, and crimson endpapers. Unpaginated [48 pp., with tipped-in erratum slip to p. 19]. A fine copy. Set in Jessen-Schrift and Trajanus types, and printed on Nideggen paper. Embellished with accents for the High German text and long descenders for the Trajanus type, designed by the printer, and cut and cast by Paul Hayden Duensing. Illustrated with four linocuts by William Rueter, one to the title page and the others comprising the section openings. One of 85 copies, of which this is number 62. Item #113

Parallel texts of the original High German and the English translation.

Price: $200.00

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