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Fuylly titled, Lyra Germanica : Hymns for the Sundays & Chief Festivals of The Christian Year. Trnaslated from the German by Chatherine Windworth, with illustrations John Leighton and others. First published in 1855, this is the Fourth Edition published in 1865 by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. IN EXCELLENT CONDITION as seen in the listing photos. FULL CONTEMPORARY EMBOSSED BROWN MOROCCO with gilt titling on a 5-rib spine. Boards very solidly attached to the spine - a visible crack where the front board meets the spine suggests a past repair to secure (or reattach) the board. xx, 272 printed pages. All edges gilt over red. Marbled endpapers, brown silk bookmarker. Upper and lower boards with bevelled edges, and geometric 3d cube pattern within four panels with foliate cornerpieces and double black borders on the front and rear boards. There is some light foxing on first few and last few pages, none otherwise. STUNNING ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. A VERY NICE COPY. On the translator and this series from another listing: "Catherine Winkworth (1827-78) was a prototypical feminist, translator and dissenter, befriended by Elizabeth Gaskell and, through shared literary interests (discussing, for example, the sex of Currer Bell), came into contact with Chevalier Bunsen (Prussian Minister and Ambassador), James Martineau, Charles Kingsley, F.D Maurice, Archbishop Hale, and Charlotte Bronte who became her literary circle encouraging her to translate and resulting in her skills as translator being directed towards the naturalisation of German hymns into the devotional and communal life of the church through three volumes: Lyra Germanica (1855), Lyra Germanica Second Series (1858) and The Chorale Book for England (1862). The craftsmanship of translating German hymns not only required an exceptional grasp of the structure and nuances of a vernacular language, having to negotiate the differences in metre, expression, length and rhyming schemes between the two languages, but also knowledge of the theological doctrines and the musical and poetical characteristics of the hymnal. Bunsen praised Catherine's achievement, "her really wonderful translations seem to promise to effect what hitherto has proved impossible namely, to naturalize in England the German Hymns, the most immortal literary fruit of the Reformation". Winkworth was also involved deeply in promoting women's education and has been described as an early feminist." Cliff's Books B16
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