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Notes on Friedrich Laun's Die Zigeunerin (1825).

Published in two volumes by C. H. F. Hartmann in Leipzig, in 1825.

C. Chapple
Romantic Textualities' "Circulating-Library Catalogues, 1800–1829: Checklist" lists:
 * 1826: SCHULZE, Friedrich August. GIPSY, THE

The British Fiction database lists it here:
 * Year: 1826
 * Author: Friedrich August SCHULZE
 * Title: THE GIPSY, A ROMANTIC TALE, FROM THE GERMAN OF FREDERICK LAUN
 * Publication: London: C. Chapple
 * Format: 1 vol. 12°
 * Cat. nos: No copy located; ECB 231; EN2 1826: 69; xNSTC; xOCLC
 * Notes: Trans. of Die Zigeunerin (Leipzig, 1825). Friedrich Laun was the pseudonym of Friedrich August Schulze. Title above has been mainly reconstituted from a list of 'Novels, Romances, and Tales, Published by C. Chapple, Royal Subscription Library, Pall Mall', in Life in the West (EN2 1828: 38)

The English Catalogue of Books 1801–1836 lists it on p. 231 as:
 * Gipsey (The): a tale from the German. 12mo., 8s., Nov. 26

Notices of translation

 * "The Gipsey; a Romance by John Browning, Esq. from the German of Laun."
 * The Gentleman's Magazine, "Preparing for Publication" (June 1825)
 * Monthly Literary Advertiser "Works Preparing for Publication" (July 9, 1825)
 * "The Gipsy, a Romance, by John Browning, Esq. from the German of Laun, is preparing for publication."
 * "Gipsy", "Browning" The Imperial magazine; Liverpool Vol. 7, Iss. 79, (July 1825) p.683
 * "Gipsey", "Bowring" Monthly magazine, or, British regster, Feb. 1800-June 1836; London Vol. 59, Iss. 411 (July 1825) p.567
 * "Gipsey", "Bowring" The Scots Magazine (July 1825)
 * "Gipsey", "Browning" The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1 July 1825)
 * "Gipsey", "Bowring" The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art (1822-1842); Philadelphia Vol. 7, Iss. 39, (1 September 1825) p.266
 * "The Gipsy, a romance, from the German of Laun, is preparing for publication by John Browning, Esq."
 * La Belle assemblée (August 1825)
 * The Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c (1 August 1825) p.123
 * "Mr Bowring is preparing for the press, “The Gipsey, a Romance, from the German of Laun.”"
 * "Gipsey" Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine; Edinburgh Vol. 18, Iss. 103, (Aug 1825) p.247
 * "Gipsey" The London and Paris Observer (14 August 1825)
 * "Gipsy" The New York Review and Atheneum Magazine (1825-1826); New York (Oct 1, 1825) p.405
 * This advert is listed here
 * "The Gipsey, a Romance, by John Browning Esq. from the German of Laun, will be published in a few days."
 * The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (August 1825)
 * The Monthly Magazine (1 August 1825)
 * Dumfries Monthly Magazine (September 1825), p.268
 * "By the Translator of Popular Stories of the Northern Nations, a new Translation from the German, of a romantic Tale, called The Gipsey."
 * Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine (April 1826)
 * "The Gipsy, a Tale of Romance; from the German of Laune, by the translator of “Popular Stories of Northern Nations,” is in a state of forwardness, and will shortly appear."
 * "Gipsy" The Monthly Magazine (April 1826)
 * "Gipsey" The Edinburgh magazine, and Literary Miscellany (April 1826)
 * "Gipsy" The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register (1 May 1826) p.221
 * "Gypsy" Blackwood's Magazine (July 1826)
 * "Gipsey" Museum of Foreign Literature and Science (August 1826)
 * "In the Press, The Gipsey: a Tale of Romance, from the German of Laun. By the Translator of “Popular Tales of the Northern Nations.”"
 * The Morning Chronicle (18 May 1826)
 * "Shortly will be published, by C. Chapple, Royal Library, Pall-mall, The Gypsey; a Romantic Tale, from the German of Laun, by a former Contributor from the German and Italian Languages."
 * The Morning Chronicle (18 September 1826)

Listing as published

 * The Examiner for 12 March 1826:
 * "Just published": "The GIPSEY; a Tale of Romance from the German; by the Translator of “Popular Tales of the Northern Nations.”"
 * Literary Gazette for 25 November 1826:
 * "Literary Novelties": "List of New Books": "The Gipsey, a Tale from the German, 12mo. 8s. bds."
 * Edinburgh Review for December 1826:
 * "Quarterly List of New Publications, From September to December 1826": "Novels and Romances": "The Gipsy, a Tale from the German. 12mo. 8s. boards."
 * The Morning Post for 2 December 1826:
 * "Just published by C. Chapple, Royal Library, Pall-mall, THE GIPSEY; a Romantic Tale, from the German of Laun, by a former Contributor from the German and French Languages."
 * New Monthly Magazine for 1 Jan 1827:
 * "List of New Publications": "Novels, Tales, &c.": "The Gipsey, a Tale from the German. 12mo. 8s."
 * London Atlas for May 6, 1827:
 * "Pleasing Novels and Romances": "1. The Gipsy, a Romantic Tale from the German of Laun, by Mr. Browning. 12mo 8s."
 * The Morning Post for 31 Oct 1827:
 * "Life in the West": "Also lately published": "The Gipsy, a Romantic Tale, from the German of Laun."
 * Monthly Literary Advertiser for 10 December 1827:
 * "LIFE in the WEST": "Also,": "The GIPSEY, a Romantic Tale, from the German of Laun. 12mo, 8s."
 * London New Times for 11 January 1828:
 * "LIFE IN THE WEST": "Also lately published": "The GIPSEY, a Romantic Tale, from the German of Laun. 8s. boards."
 * In Life in the West (1828), listed the following book published by C. Chapple for the Royal Subscription Library, Pall Mall (the same as Chapple's Royal Circulating Library?): https://books.google.com/books?id=s6w9AQAAIAAJ&pg=PT2
 * "THE GIPSY, a Romantic Tale, from the German of Frederick Laun. 12mo. price 8s. boards."
 * Is there any evidence that the other books also listed here as published by C. Chapple existed/have survived in public libraries?
 * Bibliotheca Londinensis (1848):
 * "Gipsy": "— Tale, from the German of Laun."
 * English Catalogue of Books:
 * "Gipsey (The): a tale from the German. 12mo., 8s. Chapple, Nov. 26"
 * The capitalisation of this listing (i.e. "a tale from the German", rather than "A Tale, from the German") makes it seem like a description of the book (i.e. that the book is a translation) rather than a verbatim subtitle. Was this the source that the other magazines listed above drew on (they seem to capitalise it as if it was a subtitle), or were the magazines more accurate?
 * A bibliography of German literature in English translation:
 * "The Gipsey. A tale from the German. Chapple 1826. 12mo. [EC]"

Schulze's Memoir
In Schulze's memoirs, he says: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UWCRbbriqWEC&pg=RA1-PA198
 * Fermer habe ich mir die zu London bei C Chapple unter dem Titel: The Gipsy erschienene Uebersetzung meines Romans: Die Zigeunerin angeschafft.
 * Als etwas in seiner Art ziemlich Komisches bemerke ich hierbei, dass mir im März 1837, ein zu Paris bei Galignani und Comp. neu herausgekommenes englisches Buch "The Desultory Man" in die Bände fiel, auf dessen Titel es heisst: vom Verfasser des Richelieu und der Gipsy, da doch die Gipsy, nach den Stellen zu urtheilen, die ich mit dem deutschen Buche verglichen, nichts weiter, als eine wörtliche Uebersetzung meines Romans dises Namens ist, welcher letztere auch auf den Titel der englischen Bearbeitung nicht unerwähnt geblieben.

He writes that he acquired a copy titled The Gipsy published in London by C Chapple, and that he checked the text, and found it was a translation of Die Zigeunerin (apparently the title page also mentioned that it was a translation of Die Zigeunerin). His observations about the 1837 edition of James' The Desultory Man mentioning James' The Gipsy: A Tale show that he assumed James' The Gipsy was the same book as the Chapple translation.

The Gipsy / Die Zigeunerin print
A c. 1840 print engraved by Albert Henry Payne, drawn by L. Hicks, of a young traveller woman, sitting in front of a tent in a wood, and dealing cards, is given the caption "The Gipsy / Die Zigeunerin". This could have been for the Chapple novel? https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31138383512
 * Seems very unlikely, as Albert Henry Payne was born in 1812
 * Possibly connected to the G. P. R. James novel?

Bowring
John Bowring also translated "The Gipsy's Blessing" in Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain (1824): https://archive.org/details/b24875314/page/n267/mode/2up?q=bowring

G. P. R. James
In 1835, George Payne Rainsford James published The Gipsy: A Tale in three volumes by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans in London.

(One of?) James' manuscript(s) of this book is in Harvard University Library: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990097723590203941/catalog