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BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED
MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM
WRITTEN IN GERMAN BY
HANS JACOB CHRISTOPH VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN
AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME DONE INTO ENGLISH
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
MCMXII
Copyright 1912
TO
DR. OTTO SCHLAPP
Lecturer in German in the University of Edinburgh, as a tribute to his successful endeavours to promote the knowledge of the German Classics in Britain, and in memory of a mutual friend, Robert Fitzroy Bell