GEILER VON KAISERSBERG, Johann
Das Irrig Schafe. Der helisch Lew. Kristliche Küngi. Der dreieckecht Spiegel. Der eschengrüdel. Der Klappermul. Der Trostspeigel 1514
Description
Das Irrig Schafe. Der helisch Lew. Kristliche Küngi. Der dreieckecht Spiegel. Der eschengrüdel. Der Klappermul. Der Trostspeigel. Geprediget und gegetütstt, mitsampt den obbestimten Tratäten.
Strasbourg, Johann Greiniger, 1514. Small folio. Text in 2 columns. With 8 large woodcut illustrations, 1 to each story, and 2 to the story of the three-cornered mirror, with a double-picture of the birth of Christ, and numerous larger and smaller black criblé woodcut initials. Bound in an old manuscript vellum leaf, with remnants of two pairs of green ties.
92 ll. STC German p. 335; cf. Adams G 320 (first ed. ca. 1510); Ritter, Incunables & Livres XVIe Siècle Bibl. Municipale Strasbourg, 1078 (ed. of 1510 only); not in Fairfax Murray.
Second edition of a collection of popular sermons, containing "Der Eschengrüdel" the first printed version of the fairy-tale of Cinderella, and with the woodcut, showing a tired girl leaning on the hearth in the kitchen, presenting the first printed portrait of Cinderella, the prototype for numerous Cinderella-pictures.
The first edition had been published, in quarto, also at Strassburg, by Schürer, in 1510. Geiler von Kaisersberg was a famous preacher, who based his sermons on popular stories taken from oral stock of folktales, fables, and fairy-tales. The other sermons present also were based on German folklore, like "the lost sheep", "the devilish lion", "the Christian queen", "the three-cornered mirror", "the gossip", and "the comfort-mirror", all illustrated by a large popular woodcut, depicting the tale rather than the moral.
With old ownerships inscription on the title-page. Used, but soundly restored copy, with the title-page and last leaf slightly soiled, restorations to the margins, some waterstaines especially along inner margins, and a few wormholes at the beginning and end. Recased.
Price
£7250.00
