Song of the Bell(s)
Jun 18th, 2010 by houghtonmodern
While we don’t usually acquire multiple copies of the same book, we broke that rule with two recent accessions.
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) published Das Lied von der Glocke (“The Song of the Bell”) in 1798. It remains one of the most well-known German poems, and has been translated into many languages.
In 1873, the Dryden Press in London privately published an English translation of the poem (which has not been successfully attributed). A number of copies of this edition were illustrated with original pen and ink sketches by artist Julia Pocock (fl. 1870-1903). Not very much is known of Pocock, nor is there information on any other copies of this poem that she illustrated.
Houghton’s two copies of the work both include 13 drawings by Pocock, and while the drawings illustrate the poem, the two books include quite different drawings.
Included here are portraits of Schiller that appear on the first page in each book, and two very different domestic scenes illustrating the fifth section of the poem.
*GC7.Sch33.Eg873s and *GC7.Sch33.Eg873sa. Both purchased with the Stanley Marcus Fund.
Hello,
I have just catalogued a book, The Doom of King Acrisius, (1872) part of William Morris’ Earthly Paradise.
The book is illustrated in the margins throughout by Pocock, and bound by Holloway. She has inscribed this copy to the binder.
I was very interested in your post, as I have no other information on this volume, which I think is an unauthorized issue. The pagination is 218 – 306, so it is possibly taken from the larger published volume.