Doeve J F Hoffmann E T A (1 results)

Condition: Good. - Octavo, cream cloth backed with tan cloth. A vignette & the series title are stamped in gilt on the front cover. The spine is decorated in black with the Dutch & series titles printed within red rectangles. The covers are darkened around the edges and lightly bumped & soiled. xxii, [i], 365 & [2] pages plus colophon. Illustrated in black & white by J. F. Doeve with full-page & textual illustrations & head-pieces. The pastedowns & endpapers are darkened. Good. The Gothic novel "Die Elixiere des Teufels" [The Devil's Elixir], published in German in 1815, was Hoffmann's first attempt at writing a novel. He was inspired to write it by a visit to a Capuchin monastery in Bamberg. This Dutch translation is by Johan van der Woude, who also writes an introduction. The striking illustrations are by Eppo Doeve [1907-1981], a popular Dutch painter and cartoonist who was born in Bandung, Indonesia and moved to the Netherlands in 1927.This translation is a title in the series "De Onsterfelijken" [The Immortals], characterized as "masterworks of world literature".Contact was an anti-Nazi publisher. They first published the diary of Anne Frank in 1947. …