Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen. Übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke.
Leipzig: Im Insel-Verlag, 1921. A later printing of Rilke’s translation of Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, dedicated to Alice Faehndrich, who inspired and assisted with the translation. Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page: “À Monsieur William Stewart, ce petit livre promis naguère, très cordialement donné, R. M. Rilke, (Muzot sur Sierre, en Novembre 1921.” William McCausland Stewart was a Professor of French and, like Rilke, a translator of the works of Paul Valéry. A fine copy, preserved in a full brown morocco clamshell box. 8vo, original decorated paper boards. More