1896 First English Edition
TURKISH FAIRY TALES AND FOLK TALES
By Dr. Ignacz. Kunos, R. Nisbet Bain
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Good
Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Lawrenace and Bullen, London, 1896
Language: English
Illustrated By: Celia Levetus
Collation: x, 275 pp., [9] leaves of plates
Dust Jacket: None, as issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002363
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
TURKISH FAIRY TALES AND FOLK TALES
Collected by Dr. Ignácz Kúnos
Translated from the Hungarian version by R. Nisbet Bain
Illustrated by Celia Levetus
An appealing first English edition of an important late-Victorian collection of Turkish folklore, gathered by the Hungarian Turkologist and folklorist Ignácz Kúnos during his travels in Anatolia and translated into English by the distinguished linguist R. Nisbet Bain.
Originally published in Hungarian in 1889 as Török Népmések, the collection preserves stories drawn from the oral traditions of the Turkish peasantry. Bain translated the tales from Kúnos’s Hungarian text and supplemented them with four related Romanian fairy tales drawn from Petre Ispirescu’s Legende sau Basmele Românilorŭ. The resulting volume contains twenty-one tales of princes, peris, demons, witches, enchanted animals, magical objects and supernatural transformations.
The edition is particularly attractive for the work of Birmingham School illustrator Celia Levetus. The decorative title page is printed in green and black, and the volume is complete with all nine full-page plates. Bibliographical records describe the first edition as x, 275 pages with nine leaves of plates, in original gilt-stamped pink cloth.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
First English edition. Original publisher’s pink/red cloth boards, decoratively stamped in gilt to the upper board and spine, with top edge gilt. Cloth substantially sun-faded and discoloured, with pronounced darkening to the spine, rubbing and general shelf wear, and wear and small areas of fraying at the spine ends and corners.
The volume has an old transparent protective covering, secured internally with adhesive tape. The front pastedown shows associated aged tape and adhesive staining. Front free endpaper with an ownership inscription dated 1944. Scattered spotting and foxing, particularly to the endpapers and preliminary leaves, consistent with age.
Several pencil annotations and brief notes appear beside individual titles on the contents pages. These are clearly visible in the photographs.
Internally the book is generally clean and legible. The decorative title page, printed in green and black with pictorial vignette, remains attractive. The nine full-page plates by Celia Levetus are all present and appear generally clean, with strong impressions and only occasional age-related marking.
A sound and complete working copy of a scarce and visually distinctive Victorian fairy-tale collection, externally worn but retaining considerable appeal through its original decorative binding, attractive title page and complete suite of Levetus illustrations.
Illustrations: Decorative title page printed in green and black; nine full-page plates by Celia Levetus.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
CiNii Books, BA41020294
WorldCat, OCLC 4050037
Open Library, OL15226022M
LCCN 01001905
Google Books, Lawrence and Bullen edition, 1896
SYNOPSIS
Collected from oral traditions encountered by Ignácz Kúnos during his travels through Anatolia, Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales presents a vivid world of padishahs and princes, peris and demons, witches, enchanted creatures, magical carpets, talismans, dragons and extraordinary transformations.
The collection contains seventeen Turkish tales, including “The Stag-Prince,” “The Three Orange-Peris,” “The Golden-Haired Children,” “The Horse-Devil and the Witch,” “The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic Carpet,” “The Wind-Demon,” and “The Forty Princes and the Seven-Headed Dragon.”
These are followed by four Romanian tales translated by Bain from Petre Ispirescu, including “The Enchanted Hog,” “Boy-Beautiful, the Golden Apples, and the Were-Wolf,” and the remarkable “Youth Without Age, and Life Without Death.” The result is an unusually rich late-nineteenth-century gathering of Anatolian and Balkan fairy-tale traditions, combining folkloric importance with the decorative appeal of Celia Levetus’s illustrations.
AUTHOR BIO
Collector / Author Bio
Ignácz Kúnos was a Hungarian Turkologist, linguist and folklorist whose fieldwork in Anatolia made an important contribution to the recording and study of Turkish oral literature, dialects and popular culture. He collected songs, tales and other traditional material directly from speakers during extensive travels in the Ottoman Empire and became one of the important early European scholars of Turkish folk literature.
Translator Bio
Robert Nisbet Bain (1854–1909) was a British historian, linguist and translator. He served as Assistant Librarian at the British Museum from 1883 until his death and was noted for his exceptional command of European languages. His numerous translations helped introduce British readers to Hungarian, Scandinavian, Russian and Eastern European literature and folklore. His other fairy-tale translations include Russian Fairy Tales and Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.
ILLUSTRATOR
Celia Levetus
Celia Levetus was a Canadian-born British illustrator, writer and bookplate designer associated with the Birmingham School of Art. Her work developed within the Arts and Crafts and fin-de-siècle illustration movements, combining decorative line work with influences from artists including Walter Crane and the wider Birmingham School. She illustrated books, designed bookplates and contributed to periodicals including The Yellow Book. Her illustrations for Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales are characteristic of the strong decorative black-and-white style for which she is now collected.
1896 First English Edition
TURKISH FAIRY TALES AND FOLK TALES
By Dr. Ignacz. Kunos, R. Nisbet Bain
KEY DETAILS
Condition: Good
Format: Hardcover, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Published By: Lawrenace and Bullen, London, 1896
Language: English
Illustrated By: Celia Levetus
Collation: x, 275 pp., [9] leaves of plates
Dust Jacket: None, as issued, No Jacket
SKU: BTETM0002363
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
DESCRIPTION
TURKISH FAIRY TALES AND FOLK TALES
Collected by Dr. Ignácz Kúnos
Translated from the Hungarian version by R. Nisbet Bain
Illustrated by Celia Levetus
An appealing first English edition of an important late-Victorian collection of Turkish folklore, gathered by the Hungarian Turkologist and folklorist Ignácz Kúnos during his travels in Anatolia and translated into English by the distinguished linguist R. Nisbet Bain.
Originally published in Hungarian in 1889 as Török Népmések, the collection preserves stories drawn from the oral traditions of the Turkish peasantry. Bain translated the tales from Kúnos’s Hungarian text and supplemented them with four related Romanian fairy tales drawn from Petre Ispirescu’s Legende sau Basmele Românilorŭ. The resulting volume contains twenty-one tales of princes, peris, demons, witches, enchanted animals, magical objects and supernatural transformations.
The edition is particularly attractive for the work of Birmingham School illustrator Celia Levetus. The decorative title page is printed in green and black, and the volume is complete with all nine full-page plates. Bibliographical records describe the first edition as x, 275 pages with nine leaves of plates, in original gilt-stamped pink cloth.
CONDITION, COLLATION & COPY NOTES
First English edition. Original publisher’s pink/red cloth boards, decoratively stamped in gilt to the upper board and spine, with top edge gilt. Cloth substantially sun-faded and discoloured, with pronounced darkening to the spine, rubbing and general shelf wear, and wear and small areas of fraying at the spine ends and corners.
The volume has an old transparent protective covering, secured internally with adhesive tape. The front pastedown shows associated aged tape and adhesive staining. Front free endpaper with an ownership inscription dated 1944. Scattered spotting and foxing, particularly to the endpapers and preliminary leaves, consistent with age.
Several pencil annotations and brief notes appear beside individual titles on the contents pages. These are clearly visible in the photographs.
Internally the book is generally clean and legible. The decorative title page, printed in green and black with pictorial vignette, remains attractive. The nine full-page plates by Celia Levetus are all present and appear generally clean, with strong impressions and only occasional age-related marking.
A sound and complete working copy of a scarce and visually distinctive Victorian fairy-tale collection, externally worn but retaining considerable appeal through its original decorative binding, attractive title page and complete suite of Levetus illustrations.
Illustrations: Decorative title page printed in green and black; nine full-page plates by Celia Levetus.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
REFERENCES
CiNii Books, BA41020294
WorldCat, OCLC 4050037
Open Library, OL15226022M
LCCN 01001905
Google Books, Lawrence and Bullen edition, 1896
SYNOPSIS
Collected from oral traditions encountered by Ignácz Kúnos during his travels through Anatolia, Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales presents a vivid world of padishahs and princes, peris and demons, witches, enchanted creatures, magical carpets, talismans, dragons and extraordinary transformations.
The collection contains seventeen Turkish tales, including “The Stag-Prince,” “The Three Orange-Peris,” “The Golden-Haired Children,” “The Horse-Devil and the Witch,” “The Magic Turban, the Magic Whip, and the Magic Carpet,” “The Wind-Demon,” and “The Forty Princes and the Seven-Headed Dragon.”
These are followed by four Romanian tales translated by Bain from Petre Ispirescu, including “The Enchanted Hog,” “Boy-Beautiful, the Golden Apples, and the Were-Wolf,” and the remarkable “Youth Without Age, and Life Without Death.” The result is an unusually rich late-nineteenth-century gathering of Anatolian and Balkan fairy-tale traditions, combining folkloric importance with the decorative appeal of Celia Levetus’s illustrations.
AUTHOR BIO
Collector / Author Bio
Ignácz Kúnos was a Hungarian Turkologist, linguist and folklorist whose fieldwork in Anatolia made an important contribution to the recording and study of Turkish oral literature, dialects and popular culture. He collected songs, tales and other traditional material directly from speakers during extensive travels in the Ottoman Empire and became one of the important early European scholars of Turkish folk literature.
Translator Bio
Robert Nisbet Bain (1854–1909) was a British historian, linguist and translator. He served as Assistant Librarian at the British Museum from 1883 until his death and was noted for his exceptional command of European languages. His numerous translations helped introduce British readers to Hungarian, Scandinavian, Russian and Eastern European literature and folklore. His other fairy-tale translations include Russian Fairy Tales and Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales.
ILLUSTRATOR
Celia Levetus
Celia Levetus was a Canadian-born British illustrator, writer and bookplate designer associated with the Birmingham School of Art. Her work developed within the Arts and Crafts and fin-de-siècle illustration movements, combining decorative line work with influences from artists including Walter Crane and the wider Birmingham School. She illustrated books, designed bookplates and contributed to periodicals including The Yellow Book. Her illustrations for Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales are characteristic of the strong decorative black-and-white style for which she is now collected.
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