Peter Schlemihl
Transcribed from the 1861 Robert Hardwicke edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
FROM THE GERMAN of ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO:
translated
BY SIR JOHN BOWRING, LL.D., &c.
WITH PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”—Shakspeake.
THIRD EDITION.
LONDON: ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.
1861.
london: robert hardwicke, printer, 192, piccadilly.
Adelung said to me one day at Petersburg—“Have you read Peter Schlemihl?”—“No.”—“If you read it, you will translate it.”—I have translated it.