richly illustrated volume of stories of the 19th century Jews of Galicia

A fine copy of this volume of family stories of the Jews of Galicia, which was one of the major centres of Jewish settlement in East Europe at the time.

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895) was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who is known for his romantic stories of Galician life and for the fact that the word 'masochism' was derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. As part of his Galician life stories, in the years 1860s to 1880s, he published the Jewish Short Stories as well as Polish Short Stories, Galician Short Stories, German Court Stories and Russian Court Stories. These works were translated into Ukrainian, Polish, Russian and French.

First French edition, number 19 of 125; approx. 100 illustrations with text by Geradin, Alphonse Levu, Emile Levu, Henri Levu, Erward Levu, Schlesinger, Vogel, Worms and others; later green three quarters morocco, marbled boards with spine richly gilt, in 6 compartments; three titles, iv, 282 pp. with blanks to beginning and rear.