![SPYRI, Johanna (1827-1901). Heidi's Early Experiences. Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, n.d. - Heidi's Further Experience. London: F.A. Perthes, Gotha, for W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., n.d. [c.1880s-1890s].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07088_0083_000(110226).jpg?w=1)
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SPYRI, Johanna (1827-1901). Heidi's Early Experiences. Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, n.d. - Heidi's Further Experience. London: F.A. Perthes, Gotha, for W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., n.d. [c.1880s-1890s].
Together 2 volumes, 8° (175 x 117mm). 6 plates. (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). Provenance: H.J. Miles (inscription) -- R.M.A. Miles 1901 (inscription).
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. Perthes originally published the German first edition of Spyri's classic of children's literature in 1880-1881. 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. 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. 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.
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Together 2 volumes, 8° (175 x 117mm). 6 plates. (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). Provenance: H.J. Miles (inscription) -- R.M.A. Miles 1901 (inscription).
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. Perthes originally published the German first edition of Spyri's classic of children's literature in 1880-1881. 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. 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. 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.
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