W.H. Riehl and H.J. Wolstenholme — Culturgeschichtliche Novellen

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1889. Cloth. A scarce early edition of W.H. Riehl's collection of historical fiction, including extensive notes by esteemed professor of German H.J. Wolstenholme. An early edition of this scarce work published 1889. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. The work contains a series of 'historical novelettes' on German history and culture written in German by W.H. Riehl, who was a respected professor at the University of Munich. This edition also contains grammatical, philological and historical notes, and a complete index, by H.J. Wolstenholme, who was a prominent lecturer in German at Cambridge University. In original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light marks to front board and minor signs of shelf wear to extremities. Light offsetting to free end papers. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper and bookseller label to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound and pages generally clean and bright with the odd spot to fore edges. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .