Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/adventuroussimpl00grimrich 2. Book V skips numbering between Chap. xviii. and xx. THE ADVENTUROUS Simplicissimus _The first English Edition of_ Simplicissimus _is limited to 1000 copies_ _of which this is No_. 11. [Illustration: Facsimile title page of the first German Edition.] Der Abentheursiche SIMPLICISSIMUS Teutsch Das ist: Die Beschreibung dess Lebes eines seltzamen Vaganten / genant Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim / wo und welcher gestalt Er nemlich in diese Welt kommen / was er darinn gesehen / gelernet / erfahren und aussgestanden / auch warumb er solche wieder feywillig quittirt. Überauss lustig / und männiglich nutzlich zu lesen. An Tag geben Von German Schleifheim von Sulsfort. Monpelgart / Gedruckt bey Johann Fillion / Im Jahr M DC LXIX. Facsimile title page of the first German Edition. THE ADVENTUROUS Simplicissimus BEING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF A STRANGE VAGABOND NAMED MELCHIOR STERNFELS VON FUCHSHAIM WRITTEN IN GERMAN BY HANS JACOB CHRISTOPH VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME DONE INTO ENGLISH LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN MCMXII _Copyright_ 1912 TO DR. OTTO SCHLAPP Lecturer in German in the University of Edinburgh, as a tribute to his successful endeavours to promote the knowledge of the German Classics in Britain, and in memory of a mutual friend, Robert Fitzroy Bell CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BOOK I. _Chap. i._: Treats of Simplicissimus' rustic descent and of his upbringing answering thereto _Chap. ii._: Of the first step towards that dignity to which Simplicissimus attained, to which is added the praise of shepherds and other excellent precepts