[1913] The Tale of Lohengrin

Description

Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first UK edition. Undated, dated from a copy held at The British Library.

With gilt titling and decoration, eight tipped-in colour plates, twenty-two full page colour illustrations, and more than twenty-five black and white illustrations throughout. Collated, complete.

Irish poet and translator T. W. Rolleston adapts the medieval Knight of the Swan tale, first appearing in the 13th-century German epic Parzival and later popularised by Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, into an English verse poem. Featuring illustrations by the Hungarian Art Nouveau artist Willy Pogany.