UNDINE
London / New York: William Heinemann / Doubleday Page & Co., 1909. Arthur Rackham. First edition thus. Cloth. 1st edition thus, 1909. A Very Good book lacking dust jacket. 4to., 136 pp., bound in publishers brown cloth spine with green paper boards, title and decorations in gilt on spine. Spine is dulled, Tips, edges and top/base of spine rubbed through. Boards are faded and tanned at edges. End papers are foxed, text pages edge toned. Text appears unmarked. Very Good. Item #36417
Undines are a category of elemental beings associated with water, stemming from the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. Later writers developed the undine into a water nymph in its own right, and it continues to live in modern literature and art through such adaptations as Danish Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 "The Little Mermaid" and the 1811 novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
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