"Germany from the Earliest Period" by Wolfgang Menzel, translated from the fourth German edition by Mrs. George Horrocks. With a Supplementary Chapter of Recent Events by Edgar Saltus. Complete in Four volumes. Published by Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1899; illustrated.

Hard boards, original publisher's red cloth with gold lettering on spine [a little shelf wear]; 5.3/4" x 8"; 1802 pages including Index at the end of the 4th volume, a few illustrations in each volume, the pages next to the illustrations are slightly foxed [see photos], 4 pages of the first volume have a blank edge damage [see photo]; very good condition.

Wolfgang Menzel (1798-1873) was German poet, critic and historian. His first work, a volume of poems, entitled Streckverse (1823), was followed in 1824-1825 by a popular Geschichte der Deutschen in three volumes (History of Germans) and in 1829 and 1830 by Ruebezahl and Narcissus, the dramatized fairy-stories upon which his reputation as a poet chiefly rests. In 1851, he published "The romance of Furore," a picture of the period of the Thirty Years' War; his other writings include Geschichte Europas, 1789-1815 (2 vols. Stuttgart, 1853), and histories of the German War of 1866 and of the Franco-German War of 1870-71.

Provenance:

From the library of J. Griff Edwards, Portsmouth, Virginia, the stamp is on the front endpaper and introductory page of each volume.

John Griff Edwards (1870-1912) belonged to the old established settler families in Virginia. His father and uncles served in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. The grandfather, LeRoy Griffin Edwards (1804-1866), was the president of the Confederate Convention of 1864. John's wife, Mrs. J. Griff Edwards founded and led the first of the United Confederate Choirs of America (1907). After that she was elected the Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Choirs. In 1911 she published a volume titled "Echoes From Dixie A Collection of Songs Used in the South."

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