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REINEKE. – (Hackmann, Friedrich August, Ed.). Reineke de Vos mit dem Koker.

With engr. frontispiece and 2 woodcut figurative vignettes in the text. (9) leaves, 380 pp. Large 8vo. Somewhat later marbled boards with spine label. – Wolfenbüttel, Frytag, 1711.

First edition of Hackmann’s (1678–1734) revision of the Reineke epos, a re-edition of the 1498 Lubeck incunabula, together with the “Koker” (quiver) by Hermann Bote (c. 1460–1520), a collection of proverbs and moral sentences, here in its first printed edition. In the introductory “Programma” Hackmann offers the proof that Hinric von Alkmar (and not Nicolaus Baumann) is the first editor of this popular Low-German verse epos. Hackmann’s edition was the basis of Gottsched’s translation into High-German prose of 1752. – Goedeke I, 483, 18; Borchling/Clausen II, 3885; Ebert 18846; Jantz 1264; KLL 5206 (“Koker”); DBE IV, 299 (Hackmann). – Somewhat browned and foxed throughout. Ms. inscription in ink dated 1826 at the end of the book. Frontispiece expertedly re-fixed. – Best.-Nr. 6941