Paul Heyse; G. H. Kingsley [trans.] — Four Phases of Love

London, G. Routledge and Co. 1857. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce translated quartet of stories from Nobel prize-winning German writer and translator, Paul Heyse. The first edition of this very scarce work, comprising four short stories translated from the German of Paul Heyse. In the publisher's original orange cloth-backed boards. Advertisements to the endpapers and paste downs.  Translated by G. H. Kingsley, a medical doctor, traveller and writer. He was the brother of the clergyman and writer Charles Kingsley. This collection features Heyse's first short story, 'Marion', as well as 'Eye-Blindness and Soul-Blindness', 'La Rabbiata', and 'By the Banks of the Tiber&apos.  A dominant figure of the important literary societies, the Tunnel uber der Spree (Berlin) and Die Krokodile (Munich), Heyse wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and approximately sixty dramas.  In the publisher's original orange cloth-backed boards. Externally, generally smart, with rubbing to the extremities and slight cocking to the spine. Front hinge is tender and rear hinge is starting, but firm. Light marks to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .