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SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH VON. The Armenian; or, The Ghost-Seer. Engraved plate of letter in secret writing facing page 215 in Volume 2 (heavily foxed). Half-titles. 4 volumes. 12mo, original 1/2 sheep with lettering piece on first 3 spines, bindings heavily worn, covers detached or starting; scattered foxing, minor stains, and ink blots, gatherings B and F sloppily opened in Volume 3 with text loss in upper outer corner of F9, free endpapers lacking in Volumes 1 and 2, Volume 3 front and Volume 4 rear endpapers torn; entirely untrimmed. London: H. D. Symonds, 1800
scarce first complete edition in english, comprising translations of Schiller's unfinished only novel Der Geisterseher and its 1796 continuation by E.F.W.E. Follenius. A one-volume English version of Schiller's text appeared in 1795. The German original first appeared serially in 1786-89 and in book form in 1789. "A German prince in Venice falls victim to the deceptions of a secret society which drives him to Catholicism and in the end is supposed to incite him to a crime disrupting the order of succession to the Austrian throne . . . the novel is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and description" (DLB). Summers, Gothic Bibliography, page 335-36; the plate is not noted by ESTC or OCLC.
