- Das lustige und recht lächerliche Lalen=Buch / Das ist: Wunderseltsame / abentheurlich / unerhörte/ und bissher unbeschriebene Geschichten und Thaten der Lalen zu Lalenburg / in Misnopotamia / hinter Utopia gelegen...
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- German
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- Euro 18 64124
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- [8], 1-133, [3] pp. [13] wdcuts. 15.2 cm.
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- Book
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- First Fully Illustrated Edition of this tale beloved by children and adults from the 16th century to the present. Renowned for their sagacity -- though in fact extremely foolish -- the Lalen live in an apparent utopia (Lalenburg). The inhabitants' hilarious misadventures culminate in their burning their town to the ground in an attempt to catch a runaway cat. The text's broad appeal sparked a Yiddish translation (1727), variations and continuations (Die Schildbürger Grillenvertreiber, etc.) versions by Wieland (1774) and Tieck (1797) and the slew of recent renderings (i.a., Kastner, 1954). The edition here is the first to use modern German and the first to have the full complement of thirteen woodcuts. NUC locates two of the nearly forty pre-1800 printings.
- Gotzkowsky, "Volksbücher", Prosaromane, Renaissancenovellen, Verdichtungen und Schwankbücher: Bibliographie der deutschen Drucke II: 163 no. 2 (2 exx.); Heitz & Ritter, Versuch einer Zusammenstellung der deutschen Volksbücher p. 157; Bircher, Deutsche Drucke des Barock Abt. B.1 B808 ("um 1680"); Hesse, Das Schicksal des Lalebuches in der deutschen Literatur no. 19; see Lexikon d. Kinder-u. Jugendliteratur 3: 281 and Brüggemann & Brunken's Handbuch z. Kinder- u. Jugendliteratur II col 941 and Ertz's Das Lalebuch. Nach dem Druck von 1597... & 1680 pp. 141-63 and Faber du Faur no. 654 & 654a and Goedeke II: 560 nos 5-6 and Negley's Utopian Literature a Bibliography nos. 650-1. I was unable to consult Bahder's fundamental work (this is his edition P). p. 129 starts the story of how the Lalenburger took his "little son" to school -- the son is 30 years old.
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- [Germany. n.p. ca. 1680].
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- lustige und recht lächerliche Lalen=Buch / Das ist: Wunderseltsame / abentheurlich / unerhörte/ und bissher unbeschriebene Geschichten und Thaten der Lalen zu Lalenburg / in Misnopotamia / hinter Utopia gelegen...
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- 1675-01-01T00:00:00Z/1685-12-31T23:59:59Z
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- 1675-1685
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- ark:/88435/t722hh96c
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- CTSN Euro 18 64124
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- No Known Copyright
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