Walladmor. Frei nach dem Englischen des Walter Scott. Von W....s. Erster Band

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First of 3 volumes in 8vo. pp. xviii, f. [1], pp. 328, [4]. Contemporary wrappers. An imitation of Scott by one of his German translators, passed off as a ‘free’ translation by ‘Willibald Alexis’. See J. A. Farrer, Literary forgeries. London and New York, 1907, pp. 268–69; W. B. Todd & A. Bowden, Sir Walter Scott: A Bibliographical History, 1796–1832. New Castle, Del., 1998, 496S and 546T for the frequently-reprinted (satirical) English retranslation by Thomas De Quincey, with a tongue-in-cheek preface intimating the fraud. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.