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Doubt about an early german edition: Weichert or Stokar?

From: Norbert Scholz <scholz.norbert~at~arcor.de>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:48:49 +0200
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Dear all,

I would appreciate any help in clarifying the origin of an early german JV
edition, which is not very often under investigation, as far as I can see.
After retiring at last I was ready to sort my antiquarian JV collection.
Here I found “Die Abenteuer von drei Russen und drei Engländern …”,
published by „Franz von Stokar, Regensburg“. But this copy looks identically
equal to issue 8 of Weichert’s complete edition from 1901 (of course I know
it is not complete at all), including its typical illustrated cloth binding.
The two issues only vary in the title leaf, which in case of Stokar’s
edition is obviously glued in later substituting the original one. The
connection to Paul Heichen is only revealed to the reader by his initials
below the foreword.

 

Meanwhile I gathered some biographic material about Fr. v. Stokar and all
collected facts indicate, that he was not a publisher in common parlance,
but an antiquarian bookseller, who pridominantly sold remainders at
wholesale. Therefore I am absolutely convinced that he purchased this book
among others in large lots from Weichert.

 

Unfortunataly I fail to prove this in general, primarily because the
mentioned issue no. 8 has no concordance in CORIAN’s “Lexikon der Reise- und
Abenteuerliteratur“, which is the only bibliography containing v. Stokar’s
series of JV, I am aware of. My copy could be a singular exception.

 

Could you please let me know, if

1st) you know copies published by Stokar are looking like mine,

2nd) you aware of historical studying work done on Stokar’s activities.

 

Best regards

Norbert Scholz

 
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