1851 Scarce First Edition - TALES AND TRADITIONS OF HUNGARY by Francis and Theresa Pulszky.
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Author: Francis and Theresa Pulszky.
Title: TALES AND TRADITIONS OF HUNGARY. In Three Volumes.
Publisher: London, Henry Colburn, Publisher. First edition. Complete set of 3 volumes.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5 ".
Pages: 327, 305, 310 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good brown half-calf leather binding over marbled boards (hinges fine, overall worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges marbled.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).
Estimate: (Scarce with few or no other copies available worldwide).
The book set: Scarce First edition of TALES AND TRADITIONS OF HUNGARY including: The Baron's Daughter, The Castle of Zipsen, Yanoshik The Robber, The Free Shot, The Golden Cross of Körösfö, The Guardians, The Love of the Angels, The Maid and the Genii, Ashmodai The Lame Demon, The Nun of Rauschenbach, The Cloister of Manaster, Pan Twardowsky, The Poor Tartar, The Maidens' Castle, The Hair of the Orphan Girl, The Rocks of Lipnik, Jack the Horse Dealer, Klongsohr of Hungary, Yanosh the Hero, The Hungarian Outlaws.
The authors:
Theresa Pulszky (7 January 1819 – 4 September 1866), also known as Terézia Pulszky, was an Austro-Hungarian author and translator.[1] Born in a Viennese family, she moved to Pest, Hungary after marrying her husband Ferenc Pulszky. Her experiences in Hungary and her subsequent escape from the country during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 to London, England was written down in diary form and published in 1850 as the highly acclaimed book Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady. She and her husband published several more works together from their later experiences and in translated Hungarian stories, poems, and culture for English audiences. Together with her family, she traveled across the United States alongside abdicated Hungarian leader Lajos Kossuth in 1853, resulting in another positively reviewed book on their experiences in America.
Ferenc Aurél Pulszky de Cselfalva et Lubócz (17 September 1814 – 9 September 1897) was a Hungarian politician, writer and nobleman. After fleeing Hungary in 1849 and being condemned to death in his absence, he was able to return and resume his political career in 1866 under an imperial amnesty.