Ankura - De sagen van Diederik van Bern naverteld door Ankura. Met vier platen
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Ankura - De sagen van Diederik van Bern naverteld door Ankura - Leiden - E.J. Brill - [1887] - 1st edition - [6], 234 pp - Cloth binding - 14 x 20 cm.
Condition: Good - with, inevitably, some wear. Neat and COMPLETE copy.
Antique edition of Diederik's saga; hero stories of the Germans and Normans. Illustrated with 4 black and white lithographs after drawings by artist Hendrik Johannes Brill (1810-1891). With introduction by A.A. (only initials; Ankura was the pseudonym of A.J.M. Brouwer Ancher). Cf. De Kempenaer I. p. 26.
Hardback edition in beautiful red linen binding with gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. The lithograph opposite the title page is coloured (by hand?).
¶ Theodoric the Great (Pannonia, c. 451 - Ravenna, AD 526) was king of the Ostrogoths and ruled over part of Italy. He tried to assimilate the Roman population into his own originally Germanic people, but this failed because the Romans were far in the majority compared to the small upper class Gothic rulers. He was also known as 'Diederik van Bern' (named after his summer residence Verona). - Wikipedia.