Author: Meredith, George, 1828-1909.

Title: Richard Feverels Prüfung : Die Geschichte eines Vaters und eines Sohnes / George Meredith ; Deutsch von Felix Paul Greve.

Edition: 2. Auflage. --

Published: Minden in Westfalen : J.C.C. Bruns' Verlag, [1905].

Description: 2 v. in 1 (316, 328 p.) ; 19 cm.

Opposite t.p.:
"Dieses Buch bildet den ersten Band einer in der J.J.C. Bruns' Verlag erscheinenden deutschen Meredith-Ausgabe, die die hervorragendsten Werke des englischen Romanciers umfassen soll. Man wolle den Prospect verlangen." (Bruns' plans a Meredith Edition in German, and signals the existence of a descriptive Brochure).

RBR Copy is a 2nd ed., and contains numerous, light notes in pencil on the verso of the fly-leaf, and on the title page, next to Greve's name: "Julie Sotteck, Fischer, Feb 04" -- a reference to the fact that the first ed. of Greve's translation appeared at the same time as Julie Sotteck's for the S. Fischer Verlag. They were reviewed together in the "Litterarische Echo."

Bruns' series of "world literature" entitled "Meisterromane/Meisterwerke der [modernen] Weltliteratur", started in 1912, and 6 v. were published in the first year:
Flaubert's Mme Bovary & Salambo (v.1 & 2);
Balzac's Pere Goriot (v.3);
O. Wilde's Dorian Gray (v.4);
a later ed. of Meredith's R. Feverel as v.5, and
Emerson's Conduct of life (orig. 1860, v.6 as Lebensfuhrung).

This was Greve's first of three Meredith translations for Bruns Publishers. --

A later, 1912 ed., published as v. 5 of Bruns' Meisterromane der Weltliteratur, was donated in July 1996 by the noted Germanist and FPG pioneer scholar, Professor A. W. Riley of Queen's University. --

Note that The Frederick Philip Grove Library Collection contains a 1935 ed. of the English original text by J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 493 p. (Everyman's library ; 916).

Local Note: Acquired with the FPG (Greve/Grove) Endowment Fund, December 1999 [Antiquariat Hochgrebe, Kassel].