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Original edition of a translation into Dutch of a German satirist

RABENER, Gottlieb Wilhelm.
Verzameling van hekelschriften, uit het Hoogduitsch.

With engraved printer's devce by F. de Bakker on titles; frontispiece by S. Fokke and portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after C.F.R. Lisiewsky in vol. 1, allegorical frontispiece and head-piece before the dedication to the donkey of Sancho Pansa in vol. 4.

With engraved printer's devce by F. de Bakker on titles; frontispiece by S. Fokke and portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after C.F.R. Lisiewsky in vol. 1, allegorical frontispiece and head-piece before the dedication to the donkey of Sancho Pansa in vol. 4.

With engraved printer's devce by F. de Bakker on titles; frontispiece by S. Fokke and portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after C.F.R. Lisiewsky in vol. 1, allegorical frontispiece and head-piece before the dedication to the donkey of Sancho Pansa in vol. 4.

With engraved printer's devce by F. de Bakker on titles; frontispiece by S. Fokke and portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after C.F.R. Lisiewsky in vol. 1, allegorical frontispiece and head-piece before the dedication to the donkey of Sancho Pansa in vol. 4.



Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1763-74. 5 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound: contemporary half calf, ribbed spine with red and green title labels lettered in gold. With engraved printer's devce by F. de Bakker on titles; frontispiece by S. Fokke and portrait of the author by J. Houbraken after C.F.R. Lisiewsky in vol. 1, allegorical frontispiece and head-piece before the dedication to the donkey of Sancho Pansa in vol. 4. (2), 355; (2), 348; XII, 353, (11); XVI, 376; LXVIII, 270, (2) pp.

Original editon of this translation in Dutch of Rabener's satires. Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener (1714-1771) was a German writer of prose satires. He was born at Wachau near Leipzig, and died at Dresden. In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe's Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage. Rabener's satires are mainly levelled at the follies of the middle classes. The papers which he published in the Bremer Beitrage were subsequently collected in a Sammlung satirischer Schriften (2 vols., 1751), to which two volumes were added in 1755.
Rabener is especially notorious for his parodic dissertation, Hinkmars von Repkow Noten Ohne Text (here vol. 2, pp. 47-109), which levels a snide charge against the futility and bankruptcy of the practice of footnoting, by consisting entirely of footnotes itself. Rabener cavalierly claimed that since footnotes and endnotes semed to have become the key to winning lasting authorial fame, he had accordingly composed his dissertation entirely in notes, and left it to others to produce the text he had annotated proleptically.
Vol. 5, printed in 1774, contains a biography of Rabener (pp. I-LXVIII) and his letters.

Good set with the bookplates of Gosewijn Jan Loncq (1810-1887), professor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht.- (Bindings sl. rubbed).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Dutch  German  Satire 

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