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THE MARVELLOUS ADVENTURES AND RARE CONCEITS
OF
Master Tyll Owlglass.
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, AND A CRITICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX,
BY KENNETH R. H. MACKENZIE, F.S.A.
WITH SIX COLOURED FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND TWENTY-SIX WOODCUTS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS BY ALFRED CROWQUILL.
Price 10s. 6d. bound in embossed cloth, richly gilt, with appropriate Design; or neatly half-bound morocco, gilt top, uncut, Roxburgh style.
“Tyll's fame has gone abroad into all lands: this, the narrative of his exploits, has been published in innumerable editions, even with all manner of learned glosses, and translated into Latin, English, French, Dutch, Polish, &c. We may say that to few mortals has it been granted to earn such a place in universal history as Tyll: for now, after five centuries, when Wallace's birthplace is unknown even to the Scots, and the Admirable Crichton still more rapidly is grown a shadow, and Edward Longshanks sleeps unregarded save by a few antiquarian English,—Tyll's native village is pointed out with pride to the traveller, and his tombstone, with a sculptured pun on his name,—namely, an Owl and a Glass,—still stands, or pretends to stand, at Möllen, near Lübeck, where, since 1350, his once nimble bones have been at rest.”—Thomas Carlyle, Essays, II. pp. 287, 288.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
“A volume of rare beauty, finely printed on tinted paper, and profusely adorned with chromolithographs and woodcuts, in Alfred Crowquill's best manner. Wonderful has been the popularity of Tyll Eulenspiegel … surpassing even that of the ‘Pilgrim's Progress.’”—Spectator, October 29, 1859.
“A book for the antiquary; for the satirist, and the historian of satire; for the boy who reads for adventures' sake; for the grown person, loving every fiction that has character in it…. Mr Mackenzie's language is quaint, racy, and antique, without a tiresome stiffness. The book as it stands is a welcome piece of English reading, with hardly a dry or tasteless morsel in it. We fancy that few Christmas books will be put forth more peculiar and characteristic, than this comely English version of the ‘Adventures of Tyll Owlglass.’”—Athenæum, November 5, 1859.