![]() ![]() It is very likely that this edition precedes that with Sonnenschein's imprint in both volumes, and English captions, examples of which are held at Erfurt University and Penn State. ![]() Perthes reused the illustrations from the German edition which still show captions in Gothic script and the page numbers for where they would have appeared in the German edition. The title character is a young orphan who is sent to the Swiss mountains to live with her grandfather. Perthes published the first volume of this English translation under his own imprint, and printed the sheets for the second volume which was published by Sonnenschein in London. Heidi, classic children’s novel by Swiss writer Johanna Spyri, published in two volumes in 188081. ![]() Perthes originally published the German first edition of Spyri's classic of children's literature in 1880-1881. RARE FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, not in the British Library, not in the Allison-Shelley Collection of German Literature in Translation at Penn State, apparently no copies recorded in German Union Catalogues, and no copy has been sold at auction in over 30 years. (Spotting, first gathering and one leaf loose in first volume, marginal tear in 6.5 in second volume.) Contemporary green patterned half cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt (extremities rubbed, fading of gilt). ![]()
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