Sigwalt Und Sigridh by Dahn, Felix - 1899

Leipzig: Breitkopf and Hartel, 1899. Book. Good +. Cloth. 104 pp. Moderate wear with several rubbed spots front cover, mostly along top edge and lower fore edge. Rear upper corner also rubbed. Some fading to upper portion of spine, but titling still intact. Attrractive scrollwork decoration largely intact on red cloth, central title area in gilt. Binding firm, slight concave bowing of boards. Decorative endpapers. Text very clean and mostly bright, pale yellowing along outer margins. No writing or markings. A tale of Nordic historical fiction, published in German, some of it in archaic, poetical Middle High German. Published for advanced students of the German language. Most copies on the market today are print-on-demand reprints. This is an early original edition but lacks illustrations. Dahn was a noted 19th century law professor who wrote romanticized history and historical fiction, mostly dealing with the fall of the Roman empire and ensuring tribal warfare. Some of his ideas became embedded in a nationalistic philosophy that later fed Nazi mythology. Size: 16mo - 6 in Tall..