The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen

Overview:

  • Title: The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen
  • Author: Wilhelm Hauff
  • Year: 1889
  • Publisher: White and Allen
  • Price: $1.50
  • Pages: xxiv+64
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Wine-Ghosts of Bremen
  • Notes:
      Limited edition, 500 copies
    • 1st US ed., apparently, of stated 1st English translation (The work was published January 1889 at Oxford, England, with same page count (see). Nothing found in 1889 newspapers suggests that White and Allen sold this limited ed. in the UK; nor mentions another US ed.)
    • Announced September for Fall publication, American Bookseller 1889-09-16 p439, as "a translation into English, for the first time, of Hauff's celebrated [Phantasien, by ES and CRLF] printed on specially prepared hand-made paper, from type distributed immediately after printing--only 500 copies--small 8vo, 1 vol., half vellum, totally uncut."
    • Price from listing as received November, under "Illustrated Holiday Books", The Dial (Chicago) 1889-12 p226: "Illustrated by Frank M. Gregory. 16mo, pp. 64. Gilt top. Uncut. White & Allen. $1.50."
    • HDL (catalog record) provides full view of two copies with original decorated cover, from U Virginia (#485 of 500) and Harvard U (#492).
      • half-title verso (U Virginia copy): "... printed entirely from type, distributed immediately after printing, ... this is No. 485. [signed]"
      • title page: by Wilhelm Hauff; New-York and London: White and Allen
      • (c) 1889 White and Allen
      • "Translated from the German of W. Hauff by E. Sadler and C. R. L. Fletcher late fellow [singular] of All Souls College"
      • List of Illustrations, 4 (frontispiece plus 3 plates not included in the pagination)
      • Preface, p.[v]-xxiv, signed "C. R. L. F."; p.xviii top heading states "Note (written before the late incorporation of the Hanse towns with the Empire)."
      • novella spans p[1]-64
    • WorldCat record OCLC 2636814 reports copy #498 of 500.